"The [ACE] study demonstrated a strong correlation between adverse childhood experiences and serious adult illnesses, including heart disease, cancer, chronic lung or liver disease. (This, again, makes sense from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective: the lungs are called the seat of grief, and the liver of anger.) These adults also had a much higher incidence of health risk factors, such as smoking, substance abuse, sexual promiscuity and sexually transmitted illnesses, as well as physical inactivity and obesity, depression and attempted suicide.
"This study echoes the findings of the ACE study: women with childhood abuse report physical problems in twice as many body systems as women without a history of abuse, including panic, depression, musculoskeletal pain, vaginal or pelvic disorders, skin disorders and respiratory illness.
"When no organic cause can be found for these symptoms, the patient is diagnosed with somatization...."
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