Childhood trauma might reflect in your mental state
When we talk about trauma or for that matter complex trauma of childhood it could simply be defined as “adverse childhood experiences” or ACEs. These would include physical, emotional, or sexual abuse; physical or emotional neglect; parental mental illness, substance dependence, incarceration; parental separation or divorce; or domestic violence.
ACE test can define the impact of trauma on you
For every yes, you would get a point on your ACE score. Higher the score, the greater the likelihood of poor health outcome. This exposure to trauma can lead to emotional dysregulation, poor self-worth and inadequate self-acceptance, lack of trust in self and others, having more of pathological attachments.
Here’s what the study says
According to a very famous US based study by Kaiser and CDC it was found that one having an ACE score of 4 or more, their relative risk for depression is four and half times more than someone who scores a zero on ACE, for suicidality the risk is 12 times more.
Symptoms of childhood trauma
Dr. Preeti Singh, Sr. Consultant Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Chief medical Officer, Lissun, says, “Experience of trauma when your brain is not developed to encode and reprocess, leaves very vulnerable, alone, finding it difficult to trust, leaves a lot of frozen in that time and space, which later manifests in your personality likelihood developing into narcissistic personality, borderline personality, paranoid personality, Depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Uncontrolled anger, Panic attacks, Eating Disorders, Adult ADHD, Addiction, Self-harm behaviour when in stress.”
The takeawaySo mostly it’s not what happens to you it becomes about what has changed inside you, unless this can be addressed with a therapist who can use a trauma informed approach, you will be reacting to the present but you will actually be reacting to your past where you froze as a child.
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