The lasting adverse effects of early trauma on depression

[fluffy]

It has been discovered that cortisol is not the result of depression but that it can be permanently turned on along with other hormones when kids get traumatized.

This can, depending on genetics, create treatment resident depression where no medications or dosage work.

In rodents separation from mother's can induce traumatic effects. Oxytocin reduction happens and maternal care behavior become absent in adulthood. In Humans neglected children have heightened anxiety.

Treatment resistance has been the reason most studies going on now reject rigid categories in the DSM and are now trying to group mental disorders along spectrums. The ADHD spectrum, the Depression spectrum. Etc. two thirds of people in the USA have had traumatic early life events that the diagnostic criteria has not accounted for.

 

[kuoka]

I read some things about it. In some cases trauma can be an underlying cause of depression.

The difficult thing with childhood trauma is that it can cause lasting PTSD. PTSD in itself can permanently lower the mood. Memory repression is also disputed, but thought to occur in 10% of victims of abuse. Though recollection of repressed memories can in some cases lead to fabricating false memories of abuse, because these real memories are already gone from the mind.

This is a super complex subject and all people suffering from childhood trauma need individualized help.


I know that memory repression is a real thing from experience. Though I think returning to traumatic memories in too much detail is not necessarily the best strategy because just remembering or imagining bad things can induce PTSD-like effects. I would be distrustful of any mental health professional offering to help recover or go through past traumatic memories.