One of them may be yours.
Childhood trauma is the leading root cause of death in America. 1,401 people a day, recorded under other names.
What follows is the evidence. →What happened to you a long time ago can still be happening to you tonight. If that is where you are, the evidence can wait.
Get help now →What follows describes what childhood trauma does to a person. The words are heavy. They are also true. Read as much or as little as you want, and stop whenever you need to.
Americans die every day of what happened to them as children.
More years of life than cancer, heart disease, stroke, accidents and COVID at its peak — combined, and then multiplied.
Every figure sourced. Every one of them undercounts.Four directions at once. Most people only ever get treated for one of them.
The weight. The sleep. The blood pressure, the blood sugar, the exhaustion nothing touches.
The decisions you cannot explain. The drinking. The anxiety with no cause you can name.
The marriage that failed. The job you lost. The neighborhood nobody wants to live in.
The sense that none of it means anything. That you are alone in it. That it will not change.
Every claim above has a page behind it. Start anywhere.
The whole case, in one book. The source behind every figure on this page.
Plain language, no jargon. The place to begin.
Why every number here undercounts.
Brain, immune system, and the pace of aging.