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Originally Posted by jimi...
It's not that easy. First of all, growing up under sucky circumstances can cause issues with all types of health, mental, social and physical.
Second, those who had trauma seem to think everyone had it. Mental illness can happen despite no trauma and we need to accept that. I had many people trying to pin down what my "trauma" was and everyone think they had it correct.
Truth is I had a pretty standard childhood.
It is abusive to say someone's trauma doesn't matter, I think we can all agree on that, but it is equally abusive to tell people they have been traumatized, they just don't know it...
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Calm down. This isn't about trying to convince people of trauma they don't know about. I used the words "theory" and "almost" intentionally to indicate somebody did a study or two and "not everybody". The theory has to do with mental damage that theoretically occurs vs memory. This is a very important distinction. They tested retrospectively and prospectively using questionnaires, dsm and child welfare records. If you had trauma your chances go up astronomically hence the "most" qualifier. But it is due to >damage< not memory therefore "remembering something you had no memory of" isn't part of the study. What they now need is identifying what got damaged. That is what the link was about. That doesn't mean people with perfect childhoods don't get sick. It merely points to stronger correlations between physical anomalies, damage, disorder, whatever you want, and illness
Sheesh.... Shoot me now...
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