Ms Em Murphy:

It has come up in some of our workshops, and some participants have started calling it "Em's theory". It is essentially about the question already referred to: which is the chicken and which is the egg in the case of mental health and addiction? The chicken is the trauma, and it probably started in childhood. Mental health issues and substance use are eggs hatched by the chicken long ago that develop over time. There is false equivalence. The question of the chicken and egg is not trauma informed. It is trauma that causes both issues. They are very interconnected but we do not see that in policy or the culture.