What Effects Does Childhood Trauma Have on an Adult? with Dr. James Gordon

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

When children grow up with trauma in their lives, it can often have a major impact on the way they live their lives as adults. However, some of these children find ways to turn their post-traumatic stress into post-traumatic growth. In the fourth and final episode of a series with Dr. James Gordon, Dr. Daniel Amen, Tana Amen, and Gordon talk about some of the ways past trauma can be overcome, or even transformed into a powerful tool for success.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.
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0:49.5	Welcome back.
0:50.4	We are here with Dr. Jim Gordon, the author of the transformation,
0:55.0	discovering wholeness and healing after trauma.
0:59.0	It's estimated, I think, that 7% of the population, just over 20 million people, would meet the diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder.
1:09.5	That's it? I would think it would be higher.
1:11.0	Well, something like what what 39% of women have
1:14.8	reported a sexual assault at some point in their life but not everybody who's
1:19.4	traumatized develops PTSD. Oh I see it's only about 10% from the studies I read, but about 10% of people
1:26.9	develop post-traumatic growth. And the question for my wife, Tana is writing a book called One Less Scared Child.
1:37.0	And one of her early memories is her mother and grandmother falling to the floor screaming when they found out her uncle was
1:46.8	murdered in a drug deal gone wrong.
1:49.8	And so Tana grew up around drugs and a fair amount of chaos.
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