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[quote=Anonymous]People commenting that childhood trauma survivors can just get over it are just profoundly ignorant about neuroscience and all it has taught us in the last few decades about the effects of trauma on the brain and the rest of the body’s functioning. They don’t understand attachment theory or any of the other sound and solid research into adverse childhood experiences and the impact on the long term health of human beings who experience them during a time of critical brain development.

Childhood trauma is no less serious than cancer and the effects cost society well into the multi trillions. It is at the root of much criminality, mental illness, chronic illness, substance abuse, domestic abuse, child abuse and sexual abuse and assault. Hurt people hurt people from dysfunctional marriages that end up a boiling pot of abuse for the children raised in them all the way to extreme child abuse. It’s all a spectrum of the same toxic mess. We need to teach people healthier ways of being and interacting and then we can begin to evolve beyond the countless generations that perpetuate the cycle of abuse.

For those of us who have experienced it, nothing the sad sacks leaving nasty comments can say will sting much given the living hell that marred and/or stole our childhoods and in many cases has made all of adulthood a journey of struggling with attachment disorder and mood disorder related to our very low sense of self worth. It seriously screws a child up to be emotionally and verbally abused on the regular while growing up. We don’t deserve further abuse here, but we more than anybody know how many monsters there are in the world hiding behind the masks of so-called normal people.

For friends who are on the journey of recovery and still struggling despite therapy etc., please consider psychedelics if they are available to you. I have been microdosing for two months now and have been stunned by the results thus far - so has my longtime therapist. I am taking psilocybin micro dose 3x weekly and have had a huge reduction in rumination/intrusive thoughts and a significant brightening of mood and relaxing of anxiety. I am 52 and have struggled with depression/anxiety later diagnosed as ptsd since my teen years. I have had dozens of meds and most recently a course of TMS therapy which helped a lot with getting my baseline higher but didn’t help with letting go of thoughts I still have of past experiences. If you have ptsd, you cannot just shut them off or choose to move on - it’s about how your brain has functioned in survival mode for sometimes decades. They aren’t sure exactly how it works but psychedelics allow the brain to let go and refire areas of the brain that have gone quieter in long term depression. The research on it is astounding, recent studies show that 2/3 of ptsd patients were CURED of symptoms entirely by psychedelic therapy in just a few sessions. Recent episode of NOVA presents the science and there is a good series on Netflix that depicts Michael Pollan’s findings in researching his recent book How to Change Your Mind which goes over all the recent studies.

Law enforcement is advocating for MDMA to be legalized again to treat cops and other first responders with PTSD. These drugs will be front line treatment within the next decade, mark my words.

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