I personally don’t agree with the findings of the study below because I have CFIDS but was never submitted to any kind of “trauma” as a child. Both of these studies focused on a “narrow set of adverse events and excluded others, such as infection, serious injury and malnutrition, shown to be important in other conditions, and that warrant futher exploration in CFS as well.”
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The trauma thing really fits in my case thou I think with the CFS it probably is a buildup of various factors over our life and the severity or amount of them which may contribute to us getting this problem.
My childhood traumas were which I think could be called excessive trauma just up till 4 yrs old i’ll list.. (thou my traumas went on, right throu out my childhood eg I was severely bullied all the way throu school too)..
– young teen parents (so I would of been receiving actual stress hormones while still in the womb, they were run-aways as their parents didnt agree to their relationship). Ive actually seen a CFS study on this.. linking the relationship of maternal stress to CFS.
– I was a child care child from a very early age.
– I had a separation from my parents at the age of 3-4 and hospital stay for tonsil removal from which I almost died from as I haemorraged during the surgery and hence needed blood transfusions.
– I think I may of been sexually abused at 3-4 (thou I have no real evidence of this but Ive always felt that).
– I was sick with the measles at 3 yrs
– I developed a stutter at 4 yrs old due to psychological stress/trauma. This was cause I was psychollogically abused by those who were meant to be my carers at my kindergarten. (My mother had to remove me from a kindergarten as those there wouldnt allow me to paint etc like the other children there and singled me out cause my family was poor. I used to be made to stand and watch the other children play and not allowed to join them).