The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) questionnaire asks 10 questions to measure childhood trauma, and each affirmative answer gives you a point. Research has shown that an individual with an ACE score of four or higher is “260% more likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than someone with a score of zero, 240% more likely to contract hepatitis, 460% more likely to experience depression, and 1,220% more likely to attempt suicide”. — my second link
Act in a way that made you afraid that you might be physically hurt?
Are you saying you never felt a threat of being slapped? — I like sushi
Are you saying you never felt a threat of being slapped? — I like sushi
I was on maybe one or two occasions though. Not a big deal. — I like sushi
So, you were punished how exactly? — I like sushi
and yet this is apparently acceptable treatment in modern society. It's a fucking disgrace. — Isaac
Thereafter, these defences are triggered by particular experiences sounds sights, or whatever, and thus one has a general stress, a PTSD like reactivity, and other defensive symptoms such as depression dissociation and so on. — unenlightened
If you do it to an adult it's called psychological torture, and it's a crime against humanity. — unenlightened
Why is that unenlightened-san? — Wallows
Mrs un scored 3, and she was almost annoyed not to get more. She asked the same question. And the answer is that this is not a therapy, or even a diagnostic tool, but a research tool. — unenlightened
It's not that neglect isn't a factor, at least at some extreme, it's just down and dirty convenience not to go into it for these purposes - we're not trying to actually measure your suffering. When it's therapy time, and we get to details, then of course it is important. — unenlightened
I see, so then that produces a skewed distribution of who needs what. — Wallows
A 2005 meta-analysis of schizophrenia revealed that the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse in the histories of people diagnosed with psychotic disorders is very high and has been understudied. This literature review revealed prevalence rates of childhood sexual abuse in studies of people diagnosed with schizophrenia ranging from 45% to 65%.[2] An analysis of the American National Comorbidity Study revealed that people who have endured three kinds of abuse (e.g., sexual, physical, bullying) are at an 18-fold higher risk of psychosis, whereas those experiencing five types are 193 times more likely to become psychotic. — wiki
I need a bit more than a word. — unenlightened
Now if you read Alice Miller, or Gabor Mate, they will tell you that it is not just in the gutter that you will find these victims, but some of the great and the good, actors businessmen, politicians are also suffering and coping as best they can with obsessive behaviours of another kind. — unenlightened
. surely being raped by a parent and suffering through a divorce 17 should not equally be a 'one'. — csalisbury
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