Bringing Light to Old Traumas
If you think your past is in the past, think again. Childhood trauma has a way of lingering and shaping your life today. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, “Over two-thirds of children have experienced some form of trauma by the age of 16.” The daily trauma that many young children experience is slowly creeping into their lives later on. Once a child goes through any kind of trauma, it brings mental health issues, physical health problems, and bad relationships into adulthood.
One’s mental and physical health is one of the main effects in adulthood when someone goes through childhood trauma. It is stated by Palo Alto University, “Children who witness or experience traumatic events are at risk for physical and mental
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Bringing the trauma back into their family and kids can affect the adult as an individual because they are brought back to what they went through as a child. In some cases, individuals aren’t able to “stop the cycle” which affects others in their lives as the trauma would be passed down from generation to generation.
Others might say that childhood trauma doesn’t affect adulthood because it was during people’s childhood and all of those memories go away. They also assume that it depends on what events or trauma the individual goes through. However, that point is not important because there
Patel 3 are much more disadvantages to the childhood trauma people go through. As said by Lifecare
Wellness, “When a child experiences a traumatic event, it can impair their physical development.
The stress can also impair the development of their immune and central nervous system.” To repeat, childhood trauma is something that should not be looked down upon when those children grow to be