Understanding ACEs with Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

In the fourth video of the ACEs Storytelling series, you will hear from California’s first Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris about the science behind Adverse Childhood Experiences and toxic stress and why there is hope for healing—at any age.

[anjeekutz]

I saw your TED talk on ACEs and it changed my life! I was 53, been in therapy for 10 years, had a very traumatic childhood, and stomach problems my whole life. I had never heard of ACES before. My score is an 8. I love learning about all things ACEs.

[deborahriley]

Bless you woman!!!
I’m a survivor and I truly think that this is the primary problem for all humanity!!
No one can truly be a fully evolved human if we are damaged!!!
I’m trying to spread this word, as we heal, we heal the human paradigm!!!
🙏☯️🙏☯️🙏

[jfjkzkr]

I think this is an important topic that is not being addressed as much as it could be in medical education. As a current medical student, I have learned very little about adverse childhood events (ACEs) and their effect on long-term health, and the information I did learn was at an optional event. If ACEs are such a big predictor of negative health outcomes, shouldn’t physicians be doing something to address it? Physicians are trained to follow the ethical principle of beneficence, providing the best care possible to their patients. Osteopathic physicians are trained to care for the entire person, mind and body, and are taught that these two influence each other. By not addressing the mind and the changes it has undergone with ACEs, it can affect the body even years later, as described by Dr. Burke Harris. If physicians want to care for their patients in the best way possible, they should address these ACEs in their practices. Even without formal mental healthcare training, many physicians still have the opportunity to effectively care for patients with ACEs. For example, one physician I know incorporated ACEs into her practice by collecting each patient’s score and then discussing it with them if they were comfortable doing so. Additionally, she tried to make her office a calming environment to reduce the possibility of triggering a stress response in a patient just trying to make it through a visit to the doctor’s office. By making their offices more welcoming to patients with trauma, physicians could make better connections with some of the people most at risk of poor health in the future, strengthening the patient-physician relationship. With this strengthened relationship, hopefully patients with high ACE scores would feel comfortable discussing their experiences with their physician and get the care they need to reduce their risk of acquiring serious health conditions in the future.

[MarvinWilliams-mc]

My score is five, im a 51 year aboriginal man of Australia, diabetes type 2, rheumatoid arthritis, charcoal foot, I've never taken medicines for 20 years. ACE'S study, is a blessing for my culture of 65, 000 years. Oppression, dispossession, vicarious trauma, intergenerational trauma. The grassroots issues is where it's at for all !!!

[whatisthedileo]

I grew up with divorced parents where my father inflicted tremendous emotional stress through a supremacist culture and environment. Living with chronic/toxic stress, I believe, led to my stage 4 cancer at age 42. I had zero physical risk factors, yet here I am. This is very accurate.

[jenniferbrown]

Your explanations of this topic is so close to almost every adult world wide. Keep continue teaching and informing us! 🌅 🌎 🌙

[deniceeverham]

Thanks so much. Most of our countries violence and dysfunction crime are caused by poor
Parenting and poverty .As well as chorionic illness Our society need to understand this to fix our chronic problems.

[Heyokasirenieisxso]

The deepest well helped me alot i have a ace of 10, reading this book put alot of the pieces back together again . Thank you

[Kelless]

I’m going to read this book- I’m curious what constitutes as “ childhood “?
I was 15 years old and a student at Columbine HS the year of the shooting. Mind you I had an alcoholic father and two very dysfunctional parents as well as other childhood things of impact- but I’ve never known how much of my health issues would have presented even IF Columbine hadn’t happened.

[jkbqvnf]

this is a great topic to review yearly.

[greenplantgoddess]

Got a 6 and I’m very sick at 66 years of age.

[cathyreddy]

Russia is imitative. Straight trust is stand. Imaginative is trust. Straight is trust.

[Heyokasirenieisxso]

The only thing is this conversation needs to be had around systemic homophobia and homophobic abuse from parents and community effects on a young gay child in regards to what that does to ones immune system .

[zeezee]

Can’t use that excuse forever! If that’s the case, I’d be out here wrecking shit!! Nah!

[greenplantgoddess]

Not living in a healthy relationship. Been in fight and flight mode on a daily basis. Score 6.

[josephnjogu]

Tell this to Kenyan teachers. They're killing our kids

[andreirodin]

OMG!!!She is still pushing this wrong model upon common people, who have very limited idea on how unscientific the ACE study was and how biased their conclusions are.
In 2022 the creator of ACE study, Dr. Anda, FINALLY warned against the simplified use of ACE score.
This woman is not a hero, but a danger to our society!!!
She needs to educate HERSELF about scientific criticism of the ACE study.
Instead, she “educates” via pop-psychology about things that she has no knowledge of!
Look up “debunking ACE study” if you don’t believe me.