Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Elizabeth Hensley — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:23:51 GMT

There is a VERY big danger here. I had a family doctor who was "ahead of his time." He was sure everything my Mother & I & lots of other Patients had were due to emotional problems & had the courage to say so. The results were I was punished by my parents and treated with contempt from then on. They only knew what Freud taught and he taught all mental illness was due to filthy thoughts in one's subconscious and "I had been raised better than that." So number 1 doctors should consider how a child is going to be treated by parents if they are told their child is not normal. I had heavy metal poisoning (cadmium, lead, nickle, and mercury). This caused major endocrine disruptions including thyroid, adrenal, and oxytocin. That last one caused mild autism which could not be diagnosed back then. I cannot read or respond to facial expressions. I also had physical structural problems in my nose, throat & rib cage that made it impossible for me to breath easy. This made me tired & I could not get a good nights sleep. But " Dr Enlightenment" could tell all my problems were all emotional so he never ran any tests. My Mother was also very sick (hypothyroid also). She too was autistic, tired all the time, & depressed & probably also heavy metal poisoned. Because many doctors saw only the autism & not what I came to them for (did not make the right expressions) they not bother to run any tests to find the physical reasons for my emotional problems I went through my entire childhood fighting chronic severe exhaustion without anybody believing. Also my mother. He also let an elderly friend of mine go blind because "she's depressed." I found out later her depression, arthritis & blindness were all due to cortisol deficiency. (Easily treatable!) Sometimes Jesus not Freud IS right, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Unless doctors are trained in psychiatry they should do THEIR jobs which is to suspect physical causes, run tests & l not play amateur shrinks.

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

WendyHT — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:44:26 GMT

Michael ,commenting on the ACE article, asked if anyone knew of other therapies which have been effective in releasing the effects of early childhood trauma. I'm an educational and specialized kinesiology instructor / practitioner and I can highly recommend those therapies. Overcoming anything from physical and sexual abuse to compulsive behaviours is very gentle and can be done without having to speak about or re-live the traumatic events. Very light touch muscle monitoring is used, as a form of gentle body-mind biofeedback mechanism, to "indicate" where and where the traumatic event took place and the body again "indicates" the gentlest and most effective way to release the stress effects. Google "specialized kinesiology" and the name of your country and you'll likely come up with your national association's contact information. All the best.

Wendy Humphreys Tebbutt, SK instructor / practitioner

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

zani — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:21:58 GMT

Outstanding! Also, read the works of Alice Miller, Ph.D. Her many books confirm that childhood abuse is held in the body and manifests as disease until one puts the blame back where it belongs--on the original perpetrator and not on the abused child. Then the disease disappears, as if by magic.

Her website: alice-miller.com

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

jilleryingram — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:17:02 GMT

HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH YOUR EMOTIONS?

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

beithe3 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:30:10 GMT

I have tried EMDR and feel it is truly amazing. My trama was as a 6 mo old, and I first tried EFT but only had mild improvement. I am so impressed with EMDR that I wish it was available free to everyone, I believe it would change the world. I feel that EMDR has enabled me to become the person I was meant to be, a person who was locked inside me all along

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

thefarmersdaughter — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:53:41 GMT

In response to Jane66. I have had EMDR and it is actually quite amazing. Several longterm traumas (since childhood),and from eleven years ago were targeted,sucessfully. I was quite skeptical and a little hesitant but am glad i did it. It`s kind of like moveing the pain(emotional) to a different part of yourself,so it doesn`t have the power it once did.It is not hypnotism,and one does not forget the trauma,but it has been most helpfull for me. I can honestly recomend it`s bennifit .Mine was done at the recomendation of my pschotherapist. The farmer`s daughter

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Radiance — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:05:21 GMT

Here is a point that must be carefully thought through. If early emotional traumas are the cause of most illnesses, then why would diseases and deformities never before seen suddenly appear in isolated people groups as soon as modern factory food was introduced? This is well-documented in Dr. Weston A. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration." Also, people have had childhood emotional scars from the beginning of time in a sinful world, yet it is only in relatively recent times that cancer, heart disease, obesity, and autoimmune diseases have skyrocketed. Our emotional, spiritual and physical lives all have a part to play in our overall health, as well as our environment and the food we eat. To blame 95% of health problems on childhood emotional traumas seems illogical. Dr. Mercola, we have a lot of respect for you, your integrity, and your work. It would be great if you would comment on this.

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Ess Ess — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:29:24 GMT

Emotions= Energy in motion; trauma makes them get stuck in the body; dis-ease results (i.e.your body is not at ease with its own energy; if not set to flowing harmoniously again, disease can and often does result).

While this study is no surprise, it is great that such studies even acknowledging that a we can and often do get traumatized in childhood, and it can affect us for a long time. There is no magic barrier separating our inner child from the adult (at least the chronological one) we grow up to be. Discounting "old school" and looking for the latest exciting theory is not likely to heal you. Feelings are for "feeling", thus, the noun (state) and verb (activity) are the given the same name. If they freeze up, all the thinking in the world is not going to get us anywhere, UNTIL we FEEL them. Like the engine isn't going to run unless, the we add the oil. Trauma freezes, feeling frees the emotion.

A great website, great woman (who used to be a psychotherapist until she FELT her early childhood abuses, and unlocked her feeling nature), great books, great links, great letters (from current readers sharing their stories, healings, support, etc. re: freeing oneself of the trauma of childhood abuse, by feeling and having supportive witnesses, to "re-grow" the child into healthy adulthood (even if you're

ALREADY that adult):

www.alicemiller.com

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

territrek — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:10:04 GMT

Watch the video "What Babies Want," narrated by Noah Wyle. It is really amazing with lots of research about the long term effects of what happens in the womb, during the birth, and immediately post-partum. I highly recommend it. I also recommend utilizing a midwife and having a homebirth. It's a much nicer way to welcome babies into the world!

Student midwife

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Freedom — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:00:53 GMT

I once knew a lady who was an internationally known healer. She described to me how she could see an aura; rainbow colours around her patients and could lay hands on them to heal them. I have regular Glaucoma checks and my pressures were around 26 initially. So, after the panic and shock of being told of high pressures; but I might add, not Glaucoma; never suffered from this todate; I read up on this and learnt about the Canal of Shlem; the minute canal at the corner of the eye designed to drain excess liquid in the event of high eye pressure..........I tried my own mental thought treament; concentrating on that part of the eye, and constucting in my mind; "Commandos of Shlem" visualising them travelling down that canal to combat and clear any obstructions.....and to my amazement, my pressures fell dramatically; now down to 16.

Pressure in the eye is not affected by high blood pressure of diet; so my Ophlamic Optician told me, so I can only assume something made that change.

You may think me mad, crazy; out of my mind.........but my pressures for some years now have been perfectly normal and low.

In time of need the mind; I believe really does take over to heal.

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

David McGill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:10:06 GMT

I'd like to echo what "66nkickn" said. This idea of past trauma's is certainly not new and the book DIANETICS: THE MODERN SCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH covers it very well. It was published in 1950! I first read this book in 1987 and one of the first things I asked myself was "Why did it take 37 years for this to come to my attention?" (the answer, of course is certain vested interests) At the time I read this book, I had been on a personal spiritual quest for several years. When I read it I thought "THIS is what I have been looking for!" I have been involved in Dianetics and Scientology to varying degrees over the years and have benefited greatly. In fact, I would probably be dead (most likely at my own hand) were it not for this body of knowledge and the processes it provides.

It has improved every aspect of my life, from my health (both physical & mental), my personal relationships and my work. One of the biggest things it gives me is hope for this troubled world. When I look around and see all of the problems of the human race, I don't just throw up my hands and say "Well, that's just the way it is... can't do anything about it!" I KNOW that something CAN be done about it... whatever it is. And further that something IS being done about it and I am helping! I can't urge everyone strongly enough to read this book and find out for themselves. There is a good reason why Dianetics and Scientology is the fastest growing movement in history...

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Amy Philo — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:37:11 GMT

I don't really think this makes much sense. If I have childhood trauma and I get depressed about it, or stressed, yes I can have a weakened immune system and other things can go wrong. But this neglects the fact that so many illnesses are caused by chemicals we get in our bodies like toxins from vaccines, drugs like SSRIs, antibiotics, pesticides, et cetera. To blame 100% of illnesses on emotions seems extreme. When I took too large a dose of thyroid hormone because my doctor messed up, I got mastitis, fever, rapid weight loss and anxiety. To blame the mastitis on my "refusal to nurture" myself while weight loss would be a sign that I love myself? Come on. If someone serves me tainted food and I get food poisoning (or if a child is fed contaminated formula) or if a 5 year old gets e coli from some salad, or if a 2 day old infant contracts a cold from his cousin, can you blame that on childhood trauma?

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Katpug — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:40:56 GMT

CranioBrian: thanks for stepping up and speaking so well about Upledger's CranioSacral therapy. I have had it done extensively over the last 10 years by various practitioners. I had a TBI, traumatic brain injury in a car accident 25 years ago and was comatose for 4 days. I could write a book about the practitioners I have seen and the supplements I have taken. Chiropractic has kept me "going" over the years but my craniosacral therapists have improved my health like no chiropractor could and I have seen plenty of them. I see an excellent one right now but Craniosacral addresses so many issues, such as taking me "through" my accident and making me relive the trauma enough so that I can put it behind me. I use the Still point inducer at home to "unwind" myself before sleep. The emotional release through crying and some screaming have brought relief to always tense muscles.

My husband had an abusive childhood from alcoholic parents and his step dad actually hit him in the face at least once a month and even broke his nose more than once. My husband has had pain in his rib cage that is debiliating and through a craniosacral session he went into the position where he was running away from his stepdad and fell to the floor and his dad was kicking him in the ribs. He did not remember that until his craniosacral session and then it became clear where that pain was coming from, the tissue memory from his childhood abuse.

I have been in several whiplash accidents and my body has relived them on the bench with my skull going way back. My therapists used to say I was very entertaining because my body moved around so much. Not anymore. We are getting down to the core. In fact, I have an appt tomorrow with my Physical Therapist who does craniosacral and my Premera Blue Cross insurance pays for it as PT. Can't get any better.

Katpug

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Mrs Yoder — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:45:34 GMT

Okay, I can't sit here tonight and read every comment you guys have made, so I'm not even addressing any of the multitude of commentary below/above/wherever.

I took the very brief little test there and I got a score of 10/10. And you know, when I think about it, I think that the only thing that has saved me is sheer dumb luck and my love of reading. I am still, however, very overweight. I used to smoke (finally kicked that one). I was also physically abusive toward other people (barely keep it in check with my own children, but I do pretty well most of the time).

My point here, is that not everyone who scores a 8/10 or higher is going to be intelligent enough to connect the dots. Or they may not find a constructive escape like reading, they may find an escape like promiscuity or drug use (or food). Those things DO effect your health. And it's a downward spiral. My husband says to me that I dwell too much on my childhood. Can't help it, it happens sometimes. I made a promise to raise my children better, and to give them what I didn't have (security, protection, love, physical needs met) without turning them into spoiled brats. I've noticed that when I dwell on my childhood, I get depressed about it, then I want to comfort myself with food (used to be more cigarettes, then I quit, so I went back to food) or even get up in the middle of the night to make sure that no one stole our food or turned off our water. Excessive eating leading to excessive pounds leading to health problems. It is all connected.

But people who haven't been slapped in the face with the psychology of their behaviour like I did to myself, who haven't learnt to stop making excuses and make the sort of life that you want . . . they probably will die early. It's not just 'get over it', even though I tell myself that constantly. It is 'process this, rationalize it, and move on because this is hurting you more now than it did the first time'.

The end. Go back to the intellectuals now.

re: Scientific Proof that Your Childhood Traumas are a MAJOR Factor in Your All Your Illnesses

Barbara Charis — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:34:08 GMT

Twice I got tumors, I stopped two different foods that caused them. They regressed and went away in less than 3 months each time. When I got arthritis, I did the same thing...and it took 2 weeks for the pain to go. I suffered from migraines for 30 years...and when I discovered all the foods that caused them...I eliminated them. Haven't had a migraine in 14 years.

When a problem arises, I don't reach for medicine. I ask myself...what have I been doing that caused this problem...and have been fortunate enough to find the answers I needed. Of course, I do ask for spiritual guidance...and it comes.

Childhood traumas might cause emotional problems, but 95% of our physical problems are caused by eating the wrong foods...the other 5% are environmental.

For 47 years now I have been doing health research...and I am still learning. Many "good" foods are part of the problem...and most people are so addicted to them that they would rather die than give up these foods. I have always been flexible...and willing to change.

Few mothers really know how to feed their children. My mother knew absolutely nothing about nutrition.

Yes, I suffered major dental problems because of this. This has been a lifelong problem. However, I went vegetarian at 39...and started eating lots of greens...and fruit...and looked better at 47 than I did at 17. At 70 I got up from my desk...and did a marathon without training for it. Just ate my fruit and veggies for the whole year preceding it. I have no physical problems...except poor teeth...because of my rotten diet as a child.

The worst childhood trauma - which will produce physical illness - is a nutrient-poor diet.