Adults who experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), aka traumatic experiences as children, still pay for what happened to them years, even decades later. But what are adverse childhood experiences? And how do they affect you today?
This article shall attempt to explain ACEs and to help you recognize just how much what happened long ago influences your life now.
What are ACEs?
Many articles have been written about adverse childhood experiences and the study that first identified them. The study I am referring to is the CDC-Kaiser Adverse Childhood Experiences Study conducted between 1995 and 1997. Involving 17,000 participants who shared with the researchers information about their experiences in childhood, the researchers wanted to see if there is a correlation between those that are negative with their subject’s health difficulties.
The CDC-Kaiser study was the first and largest of its kind and brought breathtaking insights showing that there is indeed a correlation between lousy health in adulthood and adverse childhood experiences. It also brought to light that childhood trauma is more common than had been thought, and it is not limited by race, creed, economic status, or any other demographic.
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