2,000 people spoke about how childhood trauma affected their lives and it makes disturbing reading [WalesOnline.co.UK]

Samantha Sangenito 1/19/164:00 AM

The extent to which trauma in childhood – from a parent’s divorce to a relative’s mental illness or abuse – affects a child’s development and causes problems deep into adult life has been revealed in a landmark study.

Being exposed to difficult experiences as a young person alters how children’s brains grow and how their immune and hormone systems develop, the authors found.

Cancer , heart disease, mental illness, drug use, smoking, binge drinking and criminality in adulthood can all develop as a result.

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