Brain Scans Reveal How Badly Emotional Abuse Damages Kids

The CT scan on the left shows a normal child's brain, the one on the right is the brain of a child who has been the victim of emotional trauma.

The CT scan on the left shows a normal child’s brain, while the one on the right is the brain of a child who has been the victim of emotional trauma.Bruce D Perry/The Child Trauma Academy

By Andrea Downey, The Sun

November 2, 2017 

https://nypost.com/2017/11/02/brain-scans-reveal-how-badly-emotional-abuse-damages-kids/

Why Don’t Child Sex Abuse Victims Tell?

Children keep quiet about being sexually abused out of family loyalty.

By David M. Allen, MD, professor of psychiatry at University of Tennessee; author of Coping with Critical, Demanding, and Dysfunctional Parents

October 22, 2012

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/matter-personality/201210/why-dont-child-sex-abuse-victims-tell

How Childhood Trauma Can Make You A Sick Adult

How Childhood Trauma Can Make You A Sick Adult

https://youtu.be/y3cCAcGeG8E

Big Think

Published on Oct 11, 2015

Big Think and the Mental Health Channel are proud to launch Big Thinkers on Mental Health, a new series dedicated to open discussion of anxiety, depression, and the many other psychological disorders that affect millions worldwide. The Adverse Childhood Study found that survivors of childhood trauma are up to 5000% more likely to attempt suicide, have eating disorders or become IV drug users. Dr. Vincent Felitti, the study’s founder, details this remarkable and powerful connection. Learn more at the Mental Health Channel: http://mentalhealthchannel.tv/show/bi… Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/vincent-fe… Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BigThinkdotcom Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Transcript – What we found in the ACE study involving seventeen and a half thousand middle-class adults was that life experiences in childhood that are lost in time and then further protected by shame and by secrecy and by social taboos against inquiry into certain realms of human experience—that those life experiences play out powerfully and proportionately a half century later, in terms of emotional state, in terms of biomedical disease, in terms of life expectancy. In 1985, I first became interested in developmental life experiences in early childhood really by accident. In the major obesity program we were running, a young woman came into the program. She was twenty-eight years old, and weighed 408 pounds, and asked us if we could help her with her problem. And in fifty-one weeks, we took her from 408 to 132. And we thought, well my god, we’ve got this problem licked. This is going to be a world-famous department here! She maintained her weight at 132 for several weeks, and then in one three-week period regained 37 pounds in three weeks, which I had not previously conceived as being physiologically possible. That was triggered by being sexually propositioned at work by a much older man, as she described him. And in short order, she was back over 400 pounds faster than she had lost the weight. I remember asking her why the extreme response. After initially claiming not to have any understanding of why the extreme response, ultimately she told me of a lengthy incest history with her grandfather, from age 10 to age 21. Ultimately it turned out that fifty-five percent of the people in our obesity program acknowledged a history of childhood sexual abuse. I mean, that obviously is not the only issue going on, but it was where we began. And as we went down that trail, then we discovered other forms of abuse, also growing up in massively dysfunctional households, et cetera. The ACE study was really designed to see whether these things existed at all in the general population, and if so, how did they play out over time? Read Full Transcript Here: (http://goo.gl/F7vNgV).

Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?

Childhood Guilt, Adult Depression?

New research shows differences in the brains of kids who show excessive guilty behavior, which may put them at risk for a host of mood disorders later in life.

By Jenny Chen (Science writer based in Washington, D.C.)

January 5, 2015

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/childhood-guilt-adult-depression/384176/

The ACoA Trauma Syndrome

The ACoA Trauma Syndrome: What Is an ACoA?

By Dr. Tian Dayton

At The Huffingtonpost, THE BLOG

9/19/2012 | Updated November 19, 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-tian-dayton/acoa_b_1894096.html

Children Who Experience Early Childhood Trauma Do Not ‘Just Get Over It’

Children Who Experience Early Childhood Trauma Do Not ‘Just Get Over It’

October 10, 2014

By Jane Evans

https://www.socialworkhelper.com/2014/10/08/children-experience-early-childhood-trauma-just-get/

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Violence — a family tradition | Robbyn Peters Bennett | TEDxBellingham

TEDx Talks

https://youtu.be/WLMJHdySgE8

Published on November 23, 2013

Robbyn Peters Bennett, LMHC, CMHS is a psychotherapist, educator, and child advocate who specializes in the treatment of trauma-related mental health problems resulting from the effects of early childhood stress, abuse and neglect. She is the founder of StopSpanking.org, a non-profit dedicated to educating the public on the dangers of spanking. She is on the steering committee of The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children. Robbyn is currently producing a documentary, The Last Resort, about the cultural practice of spanking children.

http://www.tedxbellingham.com

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Undoing the Harm of Childhood Trauma

Undoing the Harm of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

By Mitzi Baker on October 05, 2016

From University of California San Francisco

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/10/404446/undoing-harm-childhood-trauma-and-adversity

The Childhood Experiences That Can Cut 20 Years Off Your Life

 

December 16, 2015

By Bill Frist, Contributor, covers global and domestic health care and health care reform

At Forbes.com

http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2015/12/16/the-childhood-experiences-that-can-cut-20-years-off-your-life/