I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

Hi, I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman.

Thanks for being with us.

I'm here with my beautiful wife, Tana.

Thanks for joining us today.

So we are going to talk some more about post-traumatic stress disorder.

It affects 7 million Americans and we recently had a Facebook post that said growing up in a violent environment causes the same brain

brain changes in children as soldiers in war.

That when you grow up trouble in a chaotic or an aggressive environment.

It can actually change your brain, perhaps for the rest of your life.

So talk to me for a minute.

Does violent mean that you're just physically being abused or that you're seeing lots of chaos and yelling and drama?

Explain that.

Well, it can actually be both. And I did my research when I was a child psychiatry fellow.

So when I was learning to become a child psychiatrist on children and

grandchildren who grew up in alcoholic homes where it was just unpredictable.

So sometimes there was physical abuse, sometimes there was sexual abuse.

What really was damaging and those are damaging but it's just never knowing

When there's gonna be drama and chaos when the police are gonna come to your. And so your brain begins to over fire

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