ACEs higher for Gen X?

I do not have hard data but am very interested in this in relation to health care professionals.  Am attaching a little piece written about this issue among nurses.

Hello Ada.

I think that your concern for Generation X might well apply to EVERY woman - of any and all times. See what Donna Jackson - who needs no introduction - says about that, under the heading of 

Female Adversity: The Female Body and Brain on Toxic Stress

Why Girls Who Face Toxic Stress are More Vulnerable to Adult Illness: The Shocking Relationship Between Being Female, ACEs, Autoimmune Disease and Depression.

Please respect Donna's ownership of material as she has made this available ahead of publishing her new book.

READ MORE HERE

shirley girouard posted:

I do not have hard data but am very interested in this in relation to health care professionals.  Am attaching a little piece written about this issue among nurses.

In the film CAREGIVERS we hear that EMERGENCY NURSES are affected in their work by a factor of two, three and even four times more, than the other groups (which includes firefighters and police). I gasped when I saw these figures. 

BLESS THEM ALL !

All measurement of ACES depends on which ACES are being counted. Many lists fail to include medical harm trauma.

Since each generation is more medicalized than the next, I would suspect that Gen X has more medical harm trauma than Boomers, and Millenials even more so. This would impact help-seeking tremendously, depending if you define help-seeking as wanting more medical care. 

I don't have hard data, but I believe that GenX is the least parented generation.  Our suicide rates, liver cancer death rates, etc indicate that something is significantly wrong with the generation.  I think we might find that GenX has higher rates of reactive-attachment.

Ada,

The data you are looking for can be found in the CDC BRFSS ACE module.  After designing the original ACE study, Dr. Anda created the ACE module.  Use of this module by states is voluntary and when implemented it is done in tandem with the core BRFSS.  The link below provides general information.

https://www.cdc.gov/violencepr...study/ace_brfss.html