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the research

Medical and psychiatric professionals have long known that trauma and stress have effects on mental health. Researchers discovered that exposure to abuse and household dysfunction during childhood is linked to seven out of the ten top causes of natural death in adults

 

Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain.