We can define trauma as a set of events that cannot be controlled, come when we least expect it, threaten our life and physical integrity, and also threaten our belief system. In addition to all these features, we also have the traumas we experience in childhood, which can affect almost our entire lives, and we can see more clearly with recent scientific studies that they can be the cause of many health problems we experience.
While reading this article, we can see below that childhood You will also be presented with a list of some negative life events you may have experienced. I would suggest you to pay attention to how many of the items on this list you have experienced and how uncomfortable you feel when you still remember these events today, as well as whether you experience some physical symptoms when you remember the event or memory.
Common Characteristics of Traumas: Traumatic events are unusual; Not because they happen rarely, but on the contrary, because they damage and destroy human adaptation to life. Unlike simple misfortunes, traumatic events generally involve a personal encounter with threats to life and human bodily integrity, or violence and death. Trauma leaves people with the most severe form of helplessness and causes our reactions to disasters. When we look at the common characteristics of people who have experienced psychological trauma in general, we see that they experience similar emotions such as "intense fear, loss of control, helplessness and threat of extinction".
What Health Problems Do Childhood Traumas Cause:Traumas experienced during childhood are negative life experiences that damage children's developing brains and change the way they respond to stress, causing their immune systems to collapse, and whose effects can appear decades later. Today, we can say that it is actually a threat to societies, as well as a fact that has been proven by scientific studies to cause many psychological, psychiatric and even medical diseases. So, if we ask a question about what issues this threat contains, we are faced with a wide range of threats. � a spectrum emerges.
The negative life experiences you were exposed to in your childhood include many topics such as emotional, physical and sexual abuse, violence by your parents, substance addiction and divorce, and the health problems it causes. When we look at it;
-PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
-Panic Disorder
-OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
- Depression
-Anxiety Disorder
-Phobias, fears
-Addiction
-Personality Disorders
-Fibromyalgia
-Cancer
-Arthritis
-Asthma
-Allergies
-Borderline
-Migraine
It has been determined that it causes many health problems such as.
Scientific Study on Childhood Traumas and its results:These headings in childhood, namely When the statistics of domestic traumas causing mental health and medical diseases are evaluated, it has been proven by scientific studies that they are very closely related to each other.
In a research conducted by the Kaiser Permanente Foundation with approximately 17000 (Seventeen Thousand) adult individuals with an average age of 50. They were questioned whether they were exposed to negative childhood experiences. In this study, the following 10 questions were asked;
1- Whether they were exposed to physical abuse
2-Whether they were exposed to emotional abuse
3-Sexual abuse. Whether they have been exposed to it
4-Emotional neglect situations
5-Physical neglect situations
6-Whether any member of the family has substance addiction
7-Whether or not they were subjected to violence by their parents
8-If one of the members of the family has a mental disorder
9-Separation of parents (Divorce)
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10-Whether or not you have a family member who was imprisoned
According to the research;
- At least 1 of these negative life experiences in your childhood The number of people experiencing it corresponds to 67% of the total number. In other words, when we look at its prevalence, at least 2 out of every 3 adults have experienced at least 1 negative life experience in their lives.
- The more negative life experiences increase, the more the person's risk of experiencing chronic health problems increases.
- People who experienced at least 5 of these negative life experiences in their childhood;
- The risk of being exposed to sexual abuse before the age of 10 causing pregnancy in adolescence is 8 times higher (800%) )
- Exposure to at least 4 negative life experiences in childhood;
One of the surprising aspects of this research is that the majority of the individuals participating in the research are educated individuals and their incomes are at a level that we can accept as medium and above. is coming out.
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