Traumatic Childhoods Produce More Painful Adulthoods [psmag.com]

Alicia Doktor 5/29/184:00 AM

What's the root cause of the opioid epidemic? A strong case can be made for pain. Pain prompts people to ask their doctors for drugs. Pain keeps them taking those pills for so long that they get addicted.

So what's the source of all this suffering, as well as our inability to manage it without heavy-duty pharmaceuticals? Recent research provides a provocative answer.

It finds people who experienced more trauma and adversity in childhood and adolescence tend to experience greater pain as adults. Such people often are plagued by bad moods and/or poor sleep, which apparently intensifies their physical discomfort.

[For more on this story by Tom Jacobs, go to https://psmag.com/news/traumat...e-painful-adulthoods]

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