Surviving childhood trauma or adverse childhood experiences [koat.com]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —KOAT is taking a look at childhood trauma and how it impacts New Mexicans as adults. There’s a tool used to gauge how bad a person's trauma is and how likely they are to abuse alcohol or drugs, or suffer from depression.

As a young girl, Linda Griego Chavez said she learned how to disappear. She said it was her way of surviving.

“My father was schizophrenic and my mother was bipolar,” she said.

[For more on this story by Royale Da , go to http://www.koat.com/article/su...experiences/19723494]