Name: 【TEDx】TEDxNewy 2011 - Liz Mullinar - Treating the core problem of childhood trauma.
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why we spend millions and millions of dollars

don't take drugs  because they're bad for you.

And allowing parents to worry themselves sick

People are addicted to drugs, because of their pain.

So they are not going to do it  because they're in bad company.

It just because they have suffered some trauma,

and it's not an easy thing  to solve and heal from.

Let's take an issue that the last two speakers

over the hole of research  into this area in 2005:

yes all of them had suffered  from childhood trauma.

82 to 86 % of people with bipolar disorder,

have suffered from some form of childhood trauma.

Then let's talk about the one  that we have been million,

79 million dollars last year spent on raising awareness of:

How many people  who suffer from depression

do you think have suffered from childhood trauma or abuse?

And how many of you here have heard one word

about what's happened  in your childhood,

and might help you to heal  from your depression or anxiety.

raising awareness, so that we can feed the pharmaceutical companies!

we take more anti-depressants than any other country in the world.

I work with survivors of childhood trauma,

and I know from  my independent research,

that four years after  just a five-day program,

there is a highly  statistically significant —

highly statistically  significant reduction in depression.

a 45% reduction, in measured serious mental illness.

Why we not allowed  to acknowledge childhood trauma?

Why we not encouraged to heal from childhood trauma?

What we know, because of neuro-plasticity,

Let me discover one other  area of deep human sadness.

An area that we all care passionately about,

and when it hits us, it really, really hurts.

I have one common complaint when they go to hospital

they will get the same answer from all those young people.

Because of my internal pain from my childhood.

Because I think I am worthless, I worth nothing.

Because no one cares  about the fact that I've been abused.

runs a wonderful suicide  prevention service.

And a slightly lower  percentage for the men."

ever seen anything  about suicide prevention,

which is talked about what happened in your childhood?

Has there been a campaign which has said,

to have an impact on your current mental well-being."

So maybe for a moment  some of you maybe think

"What she keeps talking  about childhood trauma and abuse?

Childhood trauma  covers a huge spectrum.

It covers abandonment, death of the parents,

A trauma is more emotion  than the brain can deal with.