This TED talk was a very eye opening experience. It is extremely easy to assume, that anyone with a rough childhood; may in fact turn to drugs an alcohol as a way to cope in the future. What I didn’t understand until now, is that there is actual scientific evidence, that proves how and why this actually occurs. The ACE system (Adverse Childhood Experience), is so specific with its numbers, that it is able to tell you what

diseases
you are most likely to suffer from depending, on your trauma(s). It is easy to diagnose someone with a “condition” and prescribe medication; that is all we know in America. You go to your local

pharmacy
and have the medications at hand within an hour or less at times. When you go above and beyond the norm of care, you find real answers like Nadine Burke Harris did. Out of seventeen and a half thousand people, 67% of them had at least one ACE.

Depression
,

anxiety
, pulmonary complications and many more, can all be traced back to childhood trauma. What we now choose to do about this as medical professionals, is how we will begin to change the way that diagnosis are interpreted and disorders are treated.Technology and science are coming together in revolutionary ways and the future seems more and more optimistic. What will we learn 10 years from now? I guess time will tell.

Monica Avella :

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris