By Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed — 2018
You did not survive the traumas of your childhood because you were lucky. You survived — and are thriving — because of your courage and resilience.
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As California’s first surgeon general, Nadine Burke Harris, MPH ’02, is carrying out the visionary agenda she has brought to medical care: finding the roots of disease in childhood adversity and treating the long-term consequences.
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ACEs stands for adverse childhood experiences. A person’s score is typically a tally of how many of 10 such traumas — specific kinds of abuse, neglect or household challenges — they suffered before the age of 18.
When describing their symptoms, medical history and health changes at a clinic or hospital, every patient is the storyteller of their own health. Good storytellers tend to get better health care, but a history of childhood trauma plays havoc with telling your own story.
Childhood trauma has an effect on adult mental illness
Dr Gabor Maté is a renowned expert in addiction, childhood trauma and mind-body health.