USA Today (10/5, O’Donnell) reported, “Medical professionals and researchers have long” examined how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) affect “lifelong mental health and addiction.” Currently, “awareness is growing of the link between childhood trauma on long-term physical health.” In fact, “the more ACEs a person suffers as a child – divorce, domestic violence, family members with addiction – the higher the risk of problems later in learning, mental and physical health, even early death.” Individuals “with ACEs are more likely to experience ‘toxic stress’ – repeated, extreme activation of their stress response.”
Related Links:
— “‘Toxic stress’ on children can harm their lifelong learning, mental and physical health, “Jayne O’Donnell, USA Today, October 5, 2018.