The PTSD brains of children & soldiers - BBC News

Scientists have discovered that the brain structures of traumatised soldiers and children change in the same way.

[henryzhao]

Your parents hurt you, but their parents hurt them. Someone has to stop the cycle

[TheGhjgjgjgjgjg]

This is me.I grew up in a household of constant yelling and screaming while constantly being moved around so I had nobody to talk to while suffering in silence.The result is 24/7 anxiety and paranoia, zero trust with anyone no matter how close you try to get or how long I have known you, list goes on and on.

I am 29 now and have zero hope of improvement at this point.Despite all efforts my mind seems locked in defense mode and reverts to old patterns of fear despite anything I do

[Mohammad-bgxc]

Scaring little children of hell is the worst form of abuse . Please stop it before they suffer like i do everyday

[lezbyanke]

a child that has to endure boatloads of psychological and emotional terror, it's like a psychological and emotional minefield for their nervous system

[shanti]

My mother and my brother had been beaten and I struggled mentally like depression, self-harm, alcohol, an eating disorder and so on since I was 13. Now I’m 28 and looks normal like a healthy person cuz I have a job, I live by myself and I know how to smile but sometimes I still drink when I’m stressed out or just recall something horrible about my father. It hurts me but comparing victims of sexual abuse or my own brother who killed himself, my problems aren’t big deal. But I feel so much pain and it doesn’t let me go😢 Feels like it would last forever

[Huwevaans]

So in other words.. my parents have destroyed my whole life.

[ZanuDA]

If the world wasn't so ageist, this discovery wouldn't be so "surprising" and it would be made ages ago.

[finkelroy]

Knew that PTSD and CPTSD were the same when, at the age of 14 ('96) as a cadet in the Combined Cadet Forces, I was involved in a training accident involving a flashbang which endangered my life and the life of another cadet

[CrossUNV]

I have CPtsd my mom used to beat me up every single day, which I had bruises everywhere, my hands had bruises too, my nails were bleeding. I called for help. I suffer everyday with my cptsd, always get flashbacks where I got abused feel like I’m being abused again.

[cammag]

I had PTSD and dissorderd childhood. I have a really hard time coping as an adult and have developed a neurological disease after a virus.

[necessaryevil]

Two pictures of the same brain, that's just perfect.

[denniswuwei]

Please dont say that they found this out in 2016. I knew that when I was 10 years old. I was screwed. It does not matter if you are a soldier or a chiild who has been beathen throughout his youth.
Reason for this is: A soldier who has been through hell, just let him smell the stuff he smelled there, of taste the things he has eaten there. Do the same with the kids. Then you have 2 terrified/angry persons who need all the help they need.

I have been to a clinic in Holland. Met an awesome guy. Militair with ptsd.
I am a grown big man which has been beaten and been psycgological "beaten" by the woman who gave birth to me.
The best thing I found out, the guy from the USA and me, just a simple dutchman, have been gone through hell and back.

Worst thing is, you know where most of us all are afraid off, if we get threathment? We are afraid of HEAVEN.
We know hell as nobody knows this place.

Just wanted to say this.

As you say in the USA: I salute all those soldiers, veterans, people who have and still are helping those who need help for their trauma, the grown ups--> the adults who sometimes feel if their ball has been taken away and are more afraid then anybody can or could imagine.
I do salute from the heart and I do wish you all the power and the courage to make choices. Cause you have choices. Nobody can tell you which choice you have to take, but please, listen to me, when i say: The consequence will be determined for you by others.

Ask for help, get on facebook if you cant get help in the neighbourhood you live in. And most important, keep in mind, not all people are wise or are willing to listen. They are listening to answer and are not listiening without the intention to answer.

Please do get the help, look outside the box, do not accept answers which make you feel sad or angry.
Keep talking, keep believing in yourselves.

Every beginning has an end, but damn, why is it taken me so long to get there?
Perhaps the thought: Its not what you have been through makes is hard, but the way how you are cooping with it.

All the best for those in need.

for those who dont understand, do your thing, say that we are little kids, say we need to think as an adult.
But please add some advice how to do that.
If a person has one leg, dont tell hem to click his heels.
Unfortunately only things which are visible count.
If they only knew better....

[NeverAgain.BeNiceToPeople.]

Thank you for sharing this important truth

[spruceclarkemason]

Amazing thank u for putting this together ❤

[Georgia]

I have military related PTSD believe me nobody had to tell me my brain is damaged. Just trying to make the best of things on a day to day basis.

[CreativeArtandEnergy]

I had PTSD and chronic illness, medical related PTSD stuff. And then it got worse in my twenties, escalated in my 30s. I know it’s real when they talk about this research.

[ififallithurtslea]

I get irritated by the amount of people who assume they have something as awful as PTSD when really they have anxiety. Trauma does not mean that you have PTSD. PTSD is much worse than most these people on this comment section understand. The misinformation needs to end

[dannyzee]

This is not recent lol. Only for the mainstream media

[jadenfrancisebrada]

I had 17 nightmares that keeps popping up in my head more keeps coming up

[IWonder]

I started showing signs of ptsd since I was around 10 or 11 years old. I'm so fucked lmao.
Well, could've been since I was much younger than that too, but I can't remember any further. Am 18 now.