Can childhood traumas cause some delayed forms of depression and mental illness?!


Question: Can childhood traumas cause some delayed forms of depression and mental illness!?
I know several people through out my life time that were fine when I was a kid and now many years later they're either depressed or have some sort of mental issue!. Could childhood traumas have triggered something so late in life!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Childhood psychic trauma
appears to be a crucial etiological factor in the development of a number of serious disorders both in childhood and in adulthood!. Like childhood rheumatic fever, psychic trauma sets a number of different problems into motion, any of which may lead to a definable mental condition!. Studies suggest that characteristics related to childhood trauma appear to last for long periods of life, no matter what diagnosis the patient eventually receives!. These are visualized or otherwise repeatedly perceived memories of the traumatic event, repetitive behaviors, trauma-specific fears, and changed attitudes about people, life, and the future!.
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Over the past several decades, research has increasingly shown that child maltreatment, defined as neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, or emotional maltreatment, is a major social and public health problem that affects children from all cultural backgrounds, and socioeconomic levels!.

*Symptoms of post-traumatic stress are frequently found in traumatized children!.
*Dissociative disorders are associated with a severe, prolonged physical and/or sexual abuse in childhood!. Unable to physically escape, small children tend to employ dissociation to mentally escape traumatic events!.
*Childhood maltreatment is also a risk factor for developing depression!.
*Stress-related Disorders:Disorders associated with stress include chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma!.
*Neural systems respond to prolonged, repetitive stress by altering their structural organization and functioning!. Brain scans using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have demonstrated that maltreated children and adolescents with PTSD have significantly smaller intracranial and cerebral volumes than matched controls with no history of maltreatment!.
*Researchers found that severe sexual trauma during childhood was associated with marked reductions in physical, emotional, and vocational functioning in his predominantly female sample!. For instance, compared with age- and sex-matched controls, sexually abused patients had significantly higher rates of chronic depression, morbid obesity, and certain psychosomatic symptoms such as chronic gastrointestinal distress and recurrent headaches!.
*Researchers have found that overall women who report a history of childhood abuse report problems in twice as many body systems as nonabused women!.as panic, depression, musculoskeletal disorders, genito-urinary disorders, skin disturbance, and respiratory illness!.
*In addition to poorer subjective health, childhood maltreatment has also been associated with serious health problems!.
*Research has shown that individuals who have suffered interpersonal abuse at or before age 14 often develop significant problems with modulating anger and self-destructive and suicidal behaviors !.

Conclusion
Maltreatment can alter a child's physical, emotional, cognitive and social development and impact their physical and mental health throughout their lifetime!. While we have yet to understand all of the ways which childhood maltreatment effects neurodevelopment, it is clear that the developing brain is exquisitely sensitive to and can be permanently altered by adverse experiences during childhood!.
Unfortunately, while millions of children are maltreated each year, few resources are dedicated to solving the problem!.

Finally, by preventing child maltreatment we save the staggering amounts of money spent annually dealing with its long-term consequences!.
The most obvious savings would be in the lives of the children who will not suffer the devastating effects of neglect and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse!

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Most serious mental illnesses start (usually) in the late teenage years, so the mental health fallout from abuse will not show up right away!.

For example, I was sexually abused by more than one person over many years as a child!. I had problems, but only internally & didn't tell anyone!. I got all A's in school and got a merit scholarship to college!. When I got to college, I had to be more responsible for myself (increased stress) and also, the mental illness itself got worse with age, so I started flunking classes, and as I have gotten older (now 43) I am on total disability for 13 years!. So someone who knew me in high school would think I would have been successful, and would be surprised to learn I was on disability!. Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia do both get worse with age!. Stress makes it more likely to get depression/bipolar/schizophrenia, and being abused makes it more likely it will be a severe case!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

absolutely!. all of us carry some kind of lifes baggage around with us!. even if we can't see it, or are aware of it!. !. one by one the links are forged in the chains that hold us back or down!.!. in the scriptures it refers to a group of people outside the mainstream of society, loaded down wih chains!. my name is legion, and we are many!.!. at least this individual can see that he is not alone with problems!. what he lacks to break these chains is the knowledge and skills to handle what life can throw at you!. another means of handling problems from the past are to let them drop and forget them as dead!. the biblical reference to a house that is a troublesome situation, is to leave it behind, shaking the dust from off thy sandal!. or shake off the affects of that trouble and get on with life!. troubles don't just happen in life, they're the accumulation of many troubling and emotional situations!. that haven't found any resolution!.!. like that proverbial millstone around another characters neck, it takes knowledge, uunderstanding, and skill to break the millstone or chains!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

sure they can!. as a matter of fact, that's usually the most common reason!.
therapy helps to find the underlying problem!.
look up: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder!.

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Of course! For the childhood is a development time!. The external signs can not be seen until teenage or later for they lay "underneath" our behavior!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think so!. There is so much that we repress when we cannot deal with issues when we are young that sometimes they pop up as we grow older!. Unless we get help our situation can seem pretty dismal!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

definetly, i think sometimes your childhood is surpressed, or at least you think they are, but will pop up later on in lifeWww@Answer-Health@Com

Yes definately,childhood traumas can trigger things things in later life!.Things come back to you!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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