Not the same thing but I am a social worker and we are put through tons of training on how trauma effects children’s health and wellbeing into adulthood, experience of repeated childhood trauma leads to increase of heart disease, obesity, anxiety and tons of other mental and physical ailments. You are also much more likely to die an early death.
EDIT: if you are reading and this and thinking, this might be me/someone I know. I want you to know that therapy and early intervention has also shown the ability to drastically reduce these effects over a lifetime.
I grew up really poor, most people don’t understand how much better you feel physically when the anxiety of how you are going to afford to live is removed. I am very successful now and I don’t take it for granted. Being able to live without concern of making ends meet and surviving is literally one of the best feelings in the world.
The goal shouldn’t be for supercars, yachts, and mansions, the goal should be to be able to live modestly without worrying how you are going to pay a bill or feed your family.
I’m taking a molecular biology class right now and just the other week we learned that first year residency students (interns) that work an average of 80 hours a week with near minimum wage salary. In just that first year their DNA on average ages 6x faster. DNA aging is when your telomeres (the end region of your chromosomes) shorten ever so slightly after every replication (mitotic division. This correlates to lower lifespan in almost every way and organisms that are immortal, have enzymes in all their cells to protect these telomeres from shortening.
Mandalore777 on June 16th, 2020 at 12:17 UTC »
Not the same thing but I am a social worker and we are put through tons of training on how trauma effects children’s health and wellbeing into adulthood, experience of repeated childhood trauma leads to increase of heart disease, obesity, anxiety and tons of other mental and physical ailments. You are also much more likely to die an early death.
EDIT: if you are reading and this and thinking, this might be me/someone I know. I want you to know that therapy and early intervention has also shown the ability to drastically reduce these effects over a lifetime.
KINGCRAB715 on June 16th, 2020 at 13:08 UTC »
I grew up really poor, most people don’t understand how much better you feel physically when the anxiety of how you are going to afford to live is removed. I am very successful now and I don’t take it for granted. Being able to live without concern of making ends meet and surviving is literally one of the best feelings in the world.
The goal shouldn’t be for supercars, yachts, and mansions, the goal should be to be able to live modestly without worrying how you are going to pay a bill or feed your family.
LeafSeen on June 16th, 2020 at 13:15 UTC »
I’m taking a molecular biology class right now and just the other week we learned that first year residency students (interns) that work an average of 80 hours a week with near minimum wage salary. In just that first year their DNA on average ages 6x faster. DNA aging is when your telomeres (the end region of your chromosomes) shorten ever so slightly after every replication (mitotic division. This correlates to lower lifespan in almost every way and organisms that are immortal, have enzymes in all their cells to protect these telomeres from shortening.