Tuesday, 10 September 2019

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Affect Relationships

a post by Renee Catt for YourTango.com [via World of Psychology]



Childhood trauma is surprisingly common and understandably painful, but healing is possible.

I didn’t figure out what love wasn’t until I went through my tsunami of a divorce and came face-to-face with the ongoing trauma causing by experiences of childhood abuse — all at the same time.

You see, I was a victim (sorry, I hate that word, but it is what it is) of childhood abuse, what those in the clinical world refer to as Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Continue reading

Hazel’s comment:
This is, for World of Psychology, quite a long read which some people may find disturbing. 



No comments: