Interesting : How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/15/how-child-abuse-primes-the-brain-for-future-mental-illness/ Child maltreatment has been called the tobacco industry of mental health. Much the way smoking directly causes or triggers predispositions for physical disease, early abuse may contribute to virtually all types of mental illness. ... the largest study yet to use brain scans to show the effects of child abuse, researchers have found specific changes in key regions in and around the hippocampus in the brains of young adults who were maltreated or neglected in childhood. These changes may leave victims more vulnerable to depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the study suggests. Harvard researchers led by Dr. Martin Teicher studied nearly 200 people aged 18 to 25, ... mainly middle class and well-educated. They were recruited through newspaper and transit ads for a study on âmemories of childhood.â Because the authors wanted to look specifically at the results of abuse and neglect, people who had suffered other types of trauma like car accidents or gang violence were excluded. Child maltreatment often leads to conditions like depression and PTSD, so the researchers specifically included people with those diagnoses. However, the study excluded severely addicted people and people on psychiatric medications, because brain changes related to the drugs could obscure the findings. Overall, about 25% of participants had suffered major depression at some point in their lives and 7% had been diagnosed with PTSD. But among the 16% of participants who had suffered three or more types of child maltreatment â for example, physical abuse, neglect and verbal abuse â the situation was much worse. Most of them â 53% â had suffered depression and 40% had had full or partial PTSD. The aftermath of that trauma could be seen in their brain scans, whether or not the young adults had developed diagnosable disorders. Regardless of their mental health status, formerly maltreated youth showed reductions in volume of about 6% on average in two parts of the hippocampus, and 4% reductions in regions called the subiculum and presubiculum, compared with people who had not been abused. Thatâs where this study begins to tie together loose ends seen in prior research. Previous data have suggested that the high levels of stress hormones associated with child maltreatment can damage the hippocampus, which may in turn affect peopleâs ability to cope with stress later in life. In other words, early stress makes the brain less resilient to the effects of later stress. âWe suspect that [the reductions we saw are] a consequence of maltreatment and a risk factor for developing PTSD following exposure to further traumas,â the authors write. Indeed, brain scans of adults with depression and PTSD often show reductions in size in the hippocampus. Although earlier research on abused children did not find the same changes, animal studies on early life stress have suggested that measurable differences in the hippocampus may not arise until after puberty. The new study suggests that the same is true for humans. The findings also help elucidate a possible pathway from maltreatment to PTSD, depression and addiction. The subiculum is uniquely positioned to affect all of these conditions. Receiving output from the hippocampus, it helps determine both behavioral and biochemical responses to stress. If, for example, the best thing to do in a stressful situation is flee, the subiculum sends a signal shouting ârunâ to the appropriate brain regions. But the subiculum is also involved in regulating another brain system that, when overactive during chronic high stress such as abuse, produces toxic levels of neurotransmitters that kill brain cells â particularly in the hippocampus. It can be a counterproductive feedback loop: high levels of stress hormones can lead to cell death in the very regions that are supposed to tell the system to stop production. What this means is that chronic maltreatment can set the stress system permanently on high alert. That may be useful in some cases â for example, for soldiers who must react quickly during combat or for children trying to avoid their abusers â but over the long term, the dysregulation increases risk for psychological problems like depression and PTSD. The subiculum also regulates the stress response of a key dopamine network, which may have implications for addiction risk. âIt is presumably through this pathway that stress exposure interacts with the dopaminergic reward system to produce stress-induced craving and stress-induced relapse,â the authors write. In other words, dysregulation of the stress system might lead to intensified feelings of anxiety, fear or lack of pleasure, which may in turn prompt people to escape into alcohol or other drugs. With nearly 4 million children evaluated for child abuse or neglect in the U.S. every year â a problem that costs the U.S. $124 billion in lost productivity and health, child welfare and criminal justice costs â child maltreatment isnât something we can afford to ignore. Even among the most resilient survivors, the aftereffects of abuse may linger. Not only are such children at later risk for mental illness, but because of the way trauma affects the stress system, they are also more vulnerable to developing chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.
6 major type of dysfunctional childhood : http://www.mjoyyoung.com/articles/6-types-of-dysfunctional-childhoods.php 1) Dysfunctional childhood due to Neglect neglected, ignored or abandonned. ... many end up in the street or jail. 2) Dysfunctional childhood due to physical abuse Physical beatting ( and blamed for inability of parents to control their own frustrations and anger). kid lived in fear. because of regular beatings, whippings or spankings you most likely experienced abuse. And the fear and trauma experienced during childhood often continues to impact adult life if not faced. 3) Dysfunctional childhood due to sexual abuse ... effects are: difficulty forming intimate relationships, engaging in promiscuous behavior, sexual addictions, or sexual avoidance among others in adulthood 4) Dysfunctional childhood due to emotional abuse - "toxic parents" submitted to emotional abuse : verbal abuse ( emotional outburst, yelling, cursing, ...) abuse by parents, playing psychological games, humiliation, anger outburst, and other type of manipulative and gamey behaviour by a parent or caretaker. The abuse is not overt. Often people who were emotionally abused minimize their abuse and say, "well at least I wasn't beaten" making examination of the effects of this type of abuse harder to treat. 5) Dysfunctional childhood due to alcohol and/or substance abusing parents effects are : adults with feelings of shame, guilt, desires for perfectionism, and rescueing or enabling behaviour. Many do not know how to have fun and can be overly responsible. 6) Dysfunctional childhood due to witnessing domestic violence between parents watch parents physically fight or one parent emotionally abuse the other parent. .... Many felt powerless and were confused about love... Adults who witnessed regular violence by a parent or to a parent continue to be affected in adulthood - many have issues with anger, problem solving, forming relationships, and trust among other issues. The effects of abuse during childhood impact adulthood.
http://drphil.com/shows/show/1545/ A recent episode of the popular television show Dr. Phil featured a woman whose extreme disciplinarian tactics later resulted in her arrest and prosecution for child abuse. A featured video showed her forcing her young adopted son to hold hot sauce in his mouth and take a cold shower as punishment for lying. Audience members were horrifiedâas was Dr. Philâbut the woman insisted that she couldn't find a better way to control her child. Many child abusers are not aware when their behavior becomes harmful to a child or how to deal with their own overwhelm before they lose their tempers http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/somatic-psychology/201104/the-lingering-trauma-child-abuse-0 ... The symptoms of PTSD can be quite general and can mimic other disorders: depression, anxiety, hypervigilance, problems with alcohol and drugs, sleep issues, and eating disorders are just a few. Many have problems in their relationships and trusting another person again. Many even end up in abusive relationships and find themselves re-enacting the past...
I am starting to understand why the coach says "be nice to assholes because everybody is fighting a hard battle". I now better understand his attitude. When he sees or hear of someone doing a bad thing ( abusing others in anyway) , he knows they are too stupid to get serious help. And they are just turning in circle till the day they get serious help or they realise when old - as they have all the time in the world to think. My observation now is clarified : why the very few excellent consistently profitable traders I have met are all with no exception extremely good people. They had at one time to work their psychology, and one can not work their psychology well without understanding human nature as it really is, and then actually refusing any harmful behaviour.
very interesting: Aggression, violence and criminal behaviour Violence and criminal behaviour is another frequently identified long-term consequence of child abuse and neglect for adult survivors, particularly for those who have experienced physical abuse or witnessed domestic violence (Gilbert et al., 2009; Kwong, Bartholomew, Henderson, & Trinke, 2003; Miller-Perrin & Perrin, 2007). Widom (1989) compared a sample of adults with a history of substantiated cases of child abuse and neglect in the United States with a sample of matched comparisons and found that adults with a history of abuse and neglect had a higher likelihood of arrests, adult criminality, and violent criminal behaviour. - In a study of 36 men with a history of perpetrating domestic violence, Bevan and Higgins (2002) found that child maltreatment (particularly child neglect) and low family cohesion were associated with the frequency of physical spouse abuse. - Witnessing domestic violence (but not physical abuse) as a child had a unique association with psychological spouse abuse and trauma symptomalogy. -Adults with a history of child physical abuse or witnessing domestic violence may be more likely to be violent and involved in criminal activity as they have learned that such behaviour is an appropriate method for responding to stress or conflict resolution (Chapple, 2003). - Substance abuse problems are also associated with higher rates of criminal behaviour (e.g., theft, prositution) to support addiction (Dawe, Harnett, & Frye 2008). http://www.aifs.gov.au/nch/pubs/sheets/rs20/rs20.html
Reading about this "respecting the rule of law" , I am starting to understand how bad actions come from situations of victimization - starting in childhood. I will continue looking more to each of these types and the effects on trading psychology. Just now understanding the different types of victimizations in childhood and how the victim becomes programmed/conditioned in the behaviour and how this conditioning shows up in trading. Getting totally flat now, as I really want to find ways to reduce my var risk, while keeping my timeframe target returns
Obviously, when fun-time in view, I simply can not resist : so getting visa and ticket for mid-august at the latest. . Here, my host : she is having a great time, and seems to really enjoy the very long psychology/spirituality conversations. . She is always asking "How did you manage to pack so much in your life? " .... I can't help thinking myself "that's a very good question". I really see great things with her new enterprise. The poker pro I want to book, had his own "friend" trying to stab him in the back to steal this opportunity from him. I was really not expecting to see that , but my host who has also lived a lot, was not astonished at all. So we need first to find a way to neutralize his "friend" by helping him with his 'issues' as manifested by the backstabbing. Good I am back on pen and paper working out this var optimization "problem". . I will obviously look for a linear solution first. And yes, I will dig as deep as I can on childhood traumas, so as to "inspire" the lunatics to get some serious help - all the more that they s-t-i-l-l don't even realise how f***ed up they are!
Still on my var studies. Just going to do some monte carlo stuff as there are quiet a few software. Now the spirituality ( 'external environment') : need to study in depth the various childhood traumas and how these traumas manifest in adulthood and then in trading. I will start with physical childhood abuse - aka beattings, etc... and how it leads to adults who are always angry ( even with the birds) , and how this angry/volatile personality shows up in trading as people with zero or low self-control.