Ed Dasso Medical Thrillers

Did you know that childhood trauma (as in chronic abuse and related stress) has been shown to have lifelong negative impacts on a person's health? And I'm not just talking about psychiatric health, but also physical health. Those w/ long-term childhood trauma are predisposed to suffering poorer health throughout their lives. Though the relationship between childhood trauma and poor health as an adult is becoming more clearly demonstrated, the pathway leading from one to the other has been less clear. Researchers have now discovered, though, that this repeated childhood trauma pattern actually causes permanent physical changes in a person's chromosomes which may be how the psychiatric trauma leads to poor physical health.

The big question for our society is, how do we recognize and prevent childhood abuse before it sentences a child to a lifelong risk of poor health? Scientists are just starting to dabble in possible interventions for children that may be able to reverse the effects of abuse-related trauma but the studies are few and far between.

Any thoughts from parents or those who have suffered thru childhood trauma themselves?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853238/