Painful experiences that a person goes through affect not only the person experiencing it, but also that person's family members. Even if the person who experienced the traumatic experience is not alive, grandchildren coming hundreds of years later can be affected spiritually. This means that the mental problems that a person experiences today and cannot make sense of and cannot find a response to in his childhood story may have been "inherited" four or five generations ago.
According to a study conducted at Emory University in the USA, Rats, who were trained to stay away from a cherry blossom-like scent, passed on this "disgust" feeling to their "grandchildren". They found that the DNA segment responsible for sensitivity to the cherry blossom scent of the mice whose sperm were examined was more active. It was concluded that the mice's children and grandchildren acted "overly sensitive" even though they had never encountered cherry blossom before.
Epigenetic studies indicate that this is the same in humans. In other words, this and similar studies show that many characteristics of a person, from their current eating and drinking habits to their emotions, are stored in their genes and passed on to future generations without changing their DNA. Environmental stimuli can cause this gene to turn on and appear. Here is the result; if you smoke, you pass on this habit and the emotional reasons underlying this habit to your great-grandchildren through your genes, and his tendency to smoke is high. made on the generations that came after them. It is known that millions of "political opponents, criminals, inferior races, biologically inferior, disabled people", who numbered in these camps, were exterminated by various scientific and modern methods. He suggested that the physical, mental and spiritual findings seen in detainees who somehow escaped be accepted under the title of "Concentration Camp Syndrome" and this idea has been generally accepted until now.
Concentration Camp Syndrome Symptoms are generally as follows:
*Depressive Appearance
*Asthenic Conditions (Apathy, fatigue, weakness, decreased vitality)
*Emotional Excitement Disorders (emotional bluntness, quick excitability or anger, extreme apathy)
*Fear Situations (nightmares are a common restlessness)
*Intellectual Complaints (difficulties in remembering, decreased attention, focusing problems)
*Complaints involving Social Life ( inability to adapt, isolation, isolation)
*Deterioration of Self Perception (identity crises, negative self-evaluation, feelings of inferiority)
*Paronoid Thoughts (Insecurity, suspicion, hostile feelings towards others)
It has been observed that the children of these people from families they formed after escaping from the camp gradually develop a general depression, emotional bluntness or emotional inconsistency, apathy and various unstable behaviors. In fact, in some of these children, the fantasies of the painful experiences of the parents progressed into delusions, night nightmares turned into daydreams, and some paranoid states were observed as a result of the suspicions and delusions of being watched. Moreover, it has been observed that their children, that is, the grandchildren of those who survived the camp, have mental problems as well.
Scientific studies show that the negative memories that people experience, especially those that are too heavy to talk about, are inherited by future generations.
What causes the transfer of emotions?
If the emotion of an event is not experienced, is suppressed or remains a secret, that event and emotion continues by being transferred to the other. Whatever remains a secret in the family, its feeling is conveyed to the other by gaze, facial expressions, physical contact or sometimes verbally.
For example, a family member who died by suicide three generations ago may not be mourned because suicide is not a good thing religiously and culturally. If the loss is not mourned enough, those feelings are stored in the body. In this case, family members always look at the offspring with concern, "what if he kills himself too." He hugs his child, but his feeling is "don't kill yourself." Each generation transmits similar emotion to the next generation. This chain goes like this Such a feeling can arise in generations. The person who came to therapy said, “I want to kill myself these days. However, everything is fine, I have no reason.”
What is the solution?
The human brain repeats its experience to get rid of negative emotions. When a person has a problem, the first place to look should be early childhood. He should examine who lived his current problem in childhood and how. If he cannot find a response in his own story, he may begin to gather information about his previous generations. First, he can look at how his parents are in his story, and if he can't find a response, he can try to learn about the story of previous generations, that is, his grandparents. That way, he can go as far back as he can. When the connections of the information obtained with the current life of the person are studied with the support of an expert, not only does the problem disappear, but the person also closes the way to transfer the inheritance he received from his ancestors to his own children. Sometimes, sources of information are limited. Still, therapy can be helpful.
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