Early Losses and Trauma
People are at their most formative years when they are children. This is when they are most vulnerable. Turbulent events in their life at this time have a lasting effect on them that might follow them into adulthood.
The loss of a parent, childhood abandonment, abuse, and trauma may stay with a person through out their life. It may shift the way they see the world early on, giving them unhealthy coping mechanisms, and making them vulnerable to depression.
Trauma causes long-lasting changes in how the brain responds to fear and stress. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that women who were abused as children had more extreme responses to stress than women who were not. [6] Scientists believe that childhood trauma has an impact on brain function and increases a person’s susceptibility to anxiety and depression.