Dr. Martin Teicher explains how immigrant trauma and family separation act as toxic stressors, permanently rewiring a child’s brain, reducing IQ, and increasing the risk of lifelong mental health challenges.

“ I felt guilty that my mom was home alone. I felt guilty that my dad wasn’t going to be there, either. I didn’t want my dad to think that I didn’t care that he’s in there and I’m out here having fun.”

Did her mother make her attach her worth to her body just as my mother did to her body just as I am doing to mine?

In the concrete jungle of Manhattan, there is Fountain House. Is it merely a model of mental health treatment?

The bonds that took shape in our youth solidify and create roots from which we are able to grow, but return to draw life from.