Point to Ponder
Doctors see patients because of disease.
Patients see doctors because of anxiety.
Therein lies the problems between the two.
—–Michael Halini
A major cause of anxiety—that often leads to physical and mental disease, especially Anxiety Disorders and Depressive Disorders —involves Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that one has experienced. The importance of identifying and recovering from these ACEs has been uncovered in part by the ACE study, directed by Dr. Vincent Felitti of Kaiser in San Diego, California.
The ACE Study identified ten categories (not events) of equal impact when determining a person’s adverse-childhood-experiences score. The ACE score is the sum of categories and not the number of events. For example: one in each category equals a score of 3.
5 Categories of Household Dysfunction (85 percent of study participants identified one or more). These categories involve growing up in a home in which one or more of the following occurred:
- Substance abuse (27 percent)
- Loss of biological parent <18 (death, suicide, murder, divorce, separation, abandonment, foster, adoption), 23 percent
- Depression, suicide, anxiety, other DSM 5 diagnosis, 17 percent
- Domestic violence of mother, 13 percent
- Incarceration, 5 percent
3 Categories of Abuse (61 percent in the study)
- Physical abuse by parent/parent figure (not spanking), 28 percent
- Sexual contact by anyone, 22 percent (16 percent male, 28 percent female—self acknowledged)
- Psychological/emotional by parent (recurrent humiliation) 11 percent
2 Categories of Neglect (25 percent in the study):
- Emotional, 15 percent
- Physical, 10 percent
Adverse Childhood Events, Dr. Vincent Felitti
https://juvenilecouncil.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh301/files/media/document/ace_studygold_intolead_dr_felitti.pdf
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