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> The researchers found that on average, patients with six or more traumatic experiences as children died nearly 20 years earlier than those without any experie
by softwaredoug 6y ago
> The researchers found that on average, patients with six or more traumatic experiences as children died nearly 20 years earlier than those without any experience
I think people treat these as “soft” purely psychological issues. But childhood trauma physically changes your development and longer term physical health.
Further these issues impact a lot of the population. From the original Kaiser study:
> more than one in five reported three or more ACEs
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- voisin 6y agoDr. Gabor Mate has some good info on childhood trauma worth looking into.
- sp332 6y agoYes and schoolchildren who die of Covid lose a lot more years than that. Even most teachers or students' parents would be losing more than that each. Keeping schools closed may cost lives, but I don't see how opening schools in a pandemic is going to kill fewer people?