Trauma is like a virus and it gets passed along to your children even if their children are not born until years later

Because trauma can change the expression of our genes. So we need to understand whether trauma is afflicting us, how it's afflicting us, and how we can treat it if it's there.

Dr. Paul Conte.

psychiatrist, expert in treating trauma.

He's worked with Kim Kardashian and saved Lady Gaga's life.

And then in clinical practice for over two decades.

How many people have some form of trauma?

Well over half the population and trauma can change us in very negative ways.

For example, the odds of traumatic brain changes are very, very high.

We know trauma makes us age faster than our calendar age,

and we know that ultimately the root of depression, addiction,

Arkansas disease is from trauma.

Modern science knows this, but we'll give them pills.

With the idea that pills are going to fix everything and then we're surprised that tens of

thousands of people die each year from prescribed pills.

We've let that happen.

What should we be doing instead?

The key to all of this is curiosity. So for example

let's say someone is addicted to their phone. Oftentimes addictive behavior is

meant as an escape from something or even to self-punish but when you scratch

the surface of that you might learn about an episode of sexual abuse that happened when the person was a child.

This is not uncommon.

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