A recent survey has shown that half of people who live in New Hampshire have experienced a traumatic event at some point in their lives. Studies have shown that people who experience trauma early in their lives are more likely to have health problems later on down the road.
Ten percent of people who did not have a traumatic experience in childhood were in poor health. Seventeen percent of people who had a traumatic experience had poor health. Traumatic experiences include things such as witnessing domestic violence, abuse, neglect and having a relative with a substance abuse problem.
According to njtvonline.org, the survey showed that nearly half of people had at least one of those experiences. Women were more likely to have a traumatic experience. The survey showed that 53 percent of women, and 46 percent of men had a traumatic childhood experience. Additionally, 62 percent of the people who had four or more traumatic experiences were women.
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