
jajingna
Well-known member
This is a big question. I've just started trying to learn about this. It seems that traumatic events can live on indefinitely in the body as well as the mind. Many trauma victims (or survivors if you prefer) have physical illnesses later in life. It appears the stress from the difficult times can cause problems many years after. Many physical ailments have been shown by researchers to be strongly related to childhood trauma.
It seems it can influence just about everything. The nervous system, for one, which might account for much anxiety. Even brain function as complicated as that can be. And other things that go on in the body.
I wonder if the way I feel today is closely related to things that happened decades ago. Is my anxiety or depression largely the result of early experience, or maybe that plus more recent things? Pretty hard to know for sure.
It seems it can influence just about everything. The nervous system, for one, which might account for much anxiety. Even brain function as complicated as that can be. And other things that go on in the body.
I wonder if the way I feel today is closely related to things that happened decades ago. Is my anxiety or depression largely the result of early experience, or maybe that plus more recent things? Pretty hard to know for sure.