Can Trauma Be Inherited?

[@dabzvapelord]

'a risk factor isn't an equal sign' is a powerful and hope giving statement

[@Melanie____]

Epigenetics you can rewrite.. that is the actual hope. Because we I get it good and bad.. but have the choice still the same on a response.

[@AiriinSuki]

My mom was abused as a child and her parents aren't good people. She got depressed and stressed. I didn't knew until recently that abuse happend. I always wondered why me and my twin sister were always scared of everything and stressed really fast. Now I know why and I am angry at my grandparents. I feel sad for my mom and I work to change myself a lot. The stress and scares have gone down a lot. I vowed to change myself to make sure my childeren won't have to be so stressed and scared as I was.

[@danielvaldez3944]

I have a similar life to yours what happened to your mom happened to mine I now deal with anxiety PTSD ADHD and it goes on

[@AiriinSuki]

@@danielvaldez3944 I made this 2 years ago while I had anxienty disorder and fresh out of depression. Today I don't deal with that anxienty anymore, i feel great and am enjoying life. We got extremely contact with my grandma (other one is deceased) and that is working positive for my mom. She is loveling life at the moment. I have had some life events happening that didn't provoke mental issues, so i can for sure say my problems are gone. Hope you are doing well and I hope your mental health improves a lot!

[@sarahh6]

boredom overpopulation is a myth

[@tigerdiamond2486]

@@sarahh6 let me guess You believe that the earth is flat

[@cat-uq5hw]

@@theincarnationofboredom207 Shut up. You're horny because you're ought to reproduce.

[@ryanliberty]

Thank you for doing this episode. It's important for people to know. Something else that research has some tenuous proof for but needs more investigating into is the link between trauma and personality disorders. An abusive parent may traumatize a child, making them susceptible to a personality disorder while also neglecting to teach them emotional regulation skills and how to properly bond (attach) with people and have healthy boundaries. That person then might grow up with a personality disorder. If untreated they may abuse their kids and the cycle continues (in fact, their parent may have been abused similarly, passing down habits and personality disorders through environmental factors i.e. abuse). I hope that more research is done into this so that we can have more conclusive answers.

[@manchild.]

For children descended from slaves (African American/Caribbean) this is a stark reality. After hundreds of years of legal slavery, followed by Jim Crow and other forms of violent and non violent oppression, the stories passed down through generations and the psychological scars that sometimes manifest in child rearing strategies and interpersonal relationships have a lasting effect that can seemingly only be broken by addressing the trauma through psychological therapies. For many, that's not financially viable not least because of a racist and elitist economic environment. Understanding the history of law enforcement in America, isn't it clear why generational fear and animosity persists to this day among the black community and why the police force is hostile toward them?

[@kp1flush]

Wow. That's what I was thinking

[@ketosandiego3126]

💯

[@ethanjames5550]

At least 5 generations back in my family (including myself) have had severe depression

[@bearcatben4762]

that probably not epigenetics then thats probably just normal genetics

[@ethanjames5550]

@@bearcatben4762 lmao probably 🤷‍♂️ ngl i dont remember making this comment

[@bearcatben4762]

@@ethanjames5550 understanable, I didn't see how long ago it was posted lol

[@ethanjames5550]

@@bearcatben4762 yuh nw

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

wouldn't it be easier to test trauma using a group of soldiers with ptsd with living parents and children? that way you could look back before the ptsd would have occurred and see if any genes were changed post-trauma. Bonus: you get a large possible sample size since theres not really a shortage of ex-soldiers and surely a decent amount still have living parents.

[@Maddie9185]

I look forward to the day when this idea is the norm. I believe that trauma both emotional and physical gets embedded in our DNA and we pass it on until the day when the individual takes upon themselves to end that cycle. I read that stress is cumulative so it stays in your body but it can be release through exercise or massaging specific areas of your body.

[@KreativeKerri]

Grateful the VA is finally taking PTSD more serious. Breaking the stigma in general will allow others to come forth and ask for help...helping to end the cycle. One good thing about social media.

[@celinak5062]

Yep, it's called ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and most addicts have about 2-4.

[@mirailieva8849]

All people are addicts. Not my discovery (Jiddu Krishnamurti’s). To be a non addict the brain must be free. This means psychology that does not operate on thought, no false identity built by thought (ego). As long as you have an identity you are anchored (addicted) to a false reality.

[@Shawna87]

Both my parents were residential school survivors but I wasn't told things til I was in my 20's because they wouldn't talk about it but I had severe health issues growing up deep depression, cutting, eating disorders etc and was physically and mentally abused by my dad and neglected by my mother who had a gambling problem, dad would leave a lot to go drinking...years later I became addicted to pills after watching my mother die of gangrene and was in a horrifically abusive relationship but got 3 beautiful children who I lost due to addiction. I've been sober 6 years this October and got my babies home and been in and out of counseling and therapy for 6 years. Looking back I never had a chance as my therapist says BUT MY BABIES WILL! Breaking INTERGENERATIONAL trauma is so damn hard BUT POSSIBLE but it will be a lifetime of work and the results will be generation changing! Anyone who has dealt with neglect,abuse of any kind as a child can have a wonderful life but unfortunately we the children have to do alot of work

[@SurrealisticSlumbers]

😊❤ That is so wonderful

[@soogymoogi]

This video might as well be titled "why I shouldn't have kids."

[@veronica-]

Same

[@Leothecat539]

or you could heal yourself for you and future generations it may also help older generations! I would look into reiki and healing good luck

[@vibe6750]

Are you ok?

[@MackenziiRivers]

@@Leothecat539 nah, kids aren't to good to have anyway

[@Leothecat539]

@@MackenziiRivers for the people that do want to have children

[@berryberrykixx]

Well I already knew being bipolar was passed down in my family. Nice to know that my extreme anxiety and PTSD is likely passed down to me as well. I'm glad the line of trauma ends with me (no kids).

[@shao8614]

but if you live well, maybe your children would have it a lot better... like spiritual development and stuff.

[@nicolethompson2399]

Do you think this could explain the "angry black person" myth? After 400+ years of slavery, 60 years of Jim Crow and the continuation of discrimination, perhaps all the trauma, ptsd, and lack of adequate health services (mental or otherwise) express themselves in different ways. Something to think about.

[@user-mc1my2hi1n]

Nicole Thompson such an interesting point!

[@FUSCHIAdreamz]

Check out Joy Degruy she has an interesting theory on black people having PTSD

[@joshuagraham967]

No

[@lissa_ssi]

That's a really interesting point! I know that in Korean culture it is a generally accepted fact that trauma, resentment, etc. can be passed down to future generations. The sense of injustice and animosity they suffered during the Japanese occupation evolved to a concept called "Han". It describes a collective sense of oppression and isolation. "[It is a] feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong-all these combined." -Suh Namdong So I do think this could explain the "angry black person" myth! Even though that is a very ill-fitting stereotype given the severity of the source. After centuries of horrors and oppression it would be more surpising if that *didn't* manifest itself in some sort of ways.

[@soogymoogi]

Also this is because I'm autistic and my emotions are all one big tangled yarn ball, but I tend to expresa anxiety as lashing out and/or anger. So it's not necessarily uncommon.

[@Master_Therion]

My friend's parents were refugees from a war-torn country. They immigrated with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. My friend inherited his dad's "war torn jeans." Is that epigenetics or epiJEANetics?

[@senecagordon5472]

😁😁😂😂😂

[@TheSmileyFacedPizza]

Epic jean aesthetics

[@erzanabakiu7022]

Master Therion you make us like scishow videos even more

[@jparks417]

Seneca Gordon I

[@Khepriem]

My dad used to be an adventurer, but then he took an arrow in the knee... and I've never been an adventurer! *_CONFIRMED!_*

[@Khepriem]

it got hearted so I'm happy! :D

[@owenw.1643]

i have a handful of anxiety disorders and a lot of my ancestors were in the military... sometimes i wonder if that's linked

[@pdreding]

Does this mean someone actually CAN punch someone so hard that their kids will feel it? Well, possibly.

[@doubleplusgoodful]

This is a phenomenon seen among aboriginal & indigenous peoples in some colonised lands. There’ve been some studies among Canadian Aboriginal people, and there is recognition of Intergenerational Trauma in both Canadian and Australian Aboriginal peoples.

[@NewMessage]

Seeing as we already know that gene expression is triggered by environment, it makes perfect sense that a sensitivity to danger would be strengthened in subsequent generations. Behavioral evolution in action. The genes, and the amygdala, can't be expected to know that a hyper response isn't needed anymore. In time you'd expect the genes to shut down again, unless they continue to be stimulated to keep themselves 'turned on'. But the generation in question will always be hyper sensitive to that kinda stress, sadly. Well... until we find better treatments.

[@alissavandenbark9837]

your profile picture makes me anxious

[@merryquite7908]

This has been proven in myself. Well, in a tiny way. I had a genetic test for a medical issue, and it was discovered that I had a gene mutation that is strongly correlated with alcoholism. This makes sense, as alcoholism runs in my family. What was more interesting to me was that people with this mutation also have naturally higher levels of cortisol than those without it. On top of that, people with this mutation have three times the amount of endorphin receptors on their cells than people without it. Why did my ancestors need such a high tolerance to pain? Why did they need to be more alert? Was it a basic hunter/gatherer survival advantage? Or did my ancestors need these traits to survive trauma-inducing conditions? And then, did alcoholism just happen to come along afterwards, when these adaptation were no longer necessary, to cope with the higher sensitivity to danger and stress? So, to me, what you said about behavioral evolution makes perfect sense. I'm glad the field of epigenetics is opening up now. Perhaps these kind of questions can then be answered.

[@NancyLebovitz]

I don't think trauma passed on by genes and trauma passed on by telling traumatic stories exhaust the possibilities-- there's also trauma passed on because the parents' habitual responses could be angry, frightened, and/or knocked out, and these can be imitated by or affect the children.

[@patrickb4750]

What's infuriating is the the whole 'Not much evidence/research' statement. That's because healthy people do not make the pharmaceutical/medical industry money, not because it's not worth pursuing, it's just not worth pursuing from a business standpoint. I'd recommend reading 'Becoming Supernatural' by Dr. Joe Dispenza. There's a section in chapter 2 about IgA, cortisol & epigenetics.

[@SuperDarwinFAN]

I feel it's true. Even before my personal trauma, I was irritable and had anger issues as a kid. This was inherited from my dad, who had a bad childhood. And that's not the only place I see these occurrences

[@wavefireYT]

War is not the only damn causes PTSD, childhood trauma is also a thing...

[@wavefireYT]

lol... I couldn't even see my bad grammer.

[@MsStaceysclass]

Thank you for educating your audience about the processes of science as well as the findings. I wish all science journalism would include things like uncertainty and problems with studies and that more testing is needed, etc.

[@mybrotha8144]

I always thought about this when it comes to slavery

[@floridagator1765]

you are correct

[@shao8614]

so true.

[@afrodellica3223]

Showing us the movie Roots in school in front of everyone non black didn't help.

[@rigrentals5297]

As a current general chemistry student, I found this video awesome. More chemistry please.

[@superdemonboy]

The alcoholic part made me think about how I, as the first-born to my parents when they were 18 and 20, came out perfectly fine, yet my youngest siblings are more than a bit screwed up...

[@fulanichild3138]

It's pretty common for older siblings to be less affected by family dysfunction. There's a theory that older children remember a time when things were normal, so they have a stable foundation. Whereas younger children come along after life is already off the rails.

[@zorchlp]

Great vid! I was a bit miffed by the way in which you framed DNA methylation. It was pretty misleading as you described it in terms that made it seem like a 'bad' thing. However, this is also a perfectly normal part of gene regulation, and is necessary to healthy function. In this case it is the result of trauma yes, but that doesn't mean everything around it is 'bad'.

[@catercoz2491]

I am an adopted person who has irrational PTSD which was later traced back to my birth parent's experiences when I found her in my 20s. I honestly think the nature vs nurture argument is a 50 -50 thing but with some trauma, it is passed down regardless of nurture.

[@WWZenaDo]

In the sense that the family system becomes highly dysfunctional & is passed on to the children & grandchildren, yes....

[@motheraiya]

I have generalized anxiety disorder and it's assumed I've inherited it from my mother. I say assumed, however, because she's a narcissist and I doubt she would ever admit something like that because she's made sure to shame me my entire life for having anxiety (even before my diagnosis). I wonder if things like narcissism are related as well, or if that's something that's simply learned. Or perhaps tied to addiction and other mental disorders such as GAD and depression? If so, it would make sense for my family, however aware I am that correlation is not causation.

[@theincarnationofboredom207]

Yeah, narcissism can be passed on, but not in genetics. Take the character Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series for example, his parents were narcissists and in result he ended up being one because they taught him to think he's better than everyone else.

[@jaym8900]

Feel you. Both my parents are alcoholic and always told me that I never needed a girlfriend or friends for that matter. I'm 30 and literally scared stiff of having kids because I am only now realizing why I was so aggressive in my younger years. It would not be fair to the child to come from that kind of past. Whatever it takes the cycle stops with me. Can't say the same about my sister because she is just like my mother and constantly berates her three year old son and scolds her husband like he is a little child. I hope her husband wakes up soon and takes his child far away from that. Much love to all victims of narcissism. I am rooting for you

[@squashedshibber2684]

Abuse destroys your psyche from a young age and essentially forms your brain into how it is. Your brain is essentially fucked emotionally. Best you can do is move on and hope to god you don't become your parents.

[@Aurelyn]

A lot more has been discovered in recent years about not just DNA methylation but also histone methylation, histone acelytlation, and other forms. Would be nice to have an update on this subject.

[@johncaze757]

Interesting, what these discoveries had?

[@thespaceace8164]

I think there was research done on this and racial discrimination. Slavery and segregation passed on trauma involving dogs and water or something.

[@Hatiro563]

It's something so common in fiction writing, old and new. Yet, we can't get a true grasped on it when we talk about it.

[@ICE9RLN0]

I inherited a resistance to some pain killers from my father's drinking habits. There is a name for it, but I forget what it is.

[@malizee2264]

Thank you. I never knew where the mental illness in my family came from because my grandparents didn’t talk about it, until my mom started researching our ancestry. All I knew was both my parents’ parents were “crazy” and abusive. My parents were seemingly loving, but beneath it all was a deep disconnect from being able to love their children unconditionally. I blame war for destroying my family. My dads mom grew up in a concentration camp, my dads dad was the only one of his four brothers to not go to war and die because he had to take care of their mom, and my moms dad stormed the shores of Normandy…. Our family is completely divided now and all I want to do is love them. :(

[@barshakc6653]

The whole idea of inheritance terrifies me.. I would never want my child to go through the things i had to go..

[@wavefireYT]

When the word trauma can be a trigger.

[@MaxArceus]

2:53 Rare child-photo of Hank?

[@moonkookie1505]

As soon as I saw the photo I was in the comments - looking for someone mentioning it

[@gurlycirl2010]

This is why mental health services are so important! Access to various health services is so important.

[@calceata]

This still doesn't make me feel any better about having kids or not.. I was diagnosed with PTSD, anxiety disorder and depression and I'm absolutely mortified of passing it on to my kids. I don't even want to influence them with my behaviour..

[@hairyfrankfurt]

Isn't trauma trans-generational because of the levels of cortisol present in the mother's system during pregnancy? The mother having a higher stress level due to trauma would be passed down in utero wouldn't it? That's how my psych explained it anyway.

[@PWNAGE703]

Hairyfrankfurt not sure if cortisol and other stress hormones cross the placental barrier.

[@hairyfrankfurt]

Ah, fair. I feel like it should, in theory, but that is a fair argument. Thanks!

[@Dalabombana]

Actually there are a few studies that show that mothers in mental stress can increase fetal motor activity and can be harmful to development, predicting neurological problems such as ADHD later life. The pathways are possibly 1) maternal-fetal HPA axis dysregulation 2) intrauterine environment disruption due to variations in uterine artery flow. -NCBI.

[@ThrottleKitty]

I've always felt there was strong evidence for this. I think there is a part of our "memory" that goes into our DNA to help new members of the species, well, act like members of that species. It's how mothers can automatically know to do things they've never done or seen before. "memory" is a bad word for it, but so is "instinct"

[@wildfire9280]

collective memory?

[@loupax]

So that's why people are afraid of snakes even though they were not necessarily raised in an area with venomous snakes.

[@theincarnationofboredom207]

yup, because very far in the past when humans were more known to stay in trees, snakes were a big predator.

[@jemadamson2715]

I feel like I took on my mom's social anxiety especially through driving. I think it has to do with how I observed her while she drove. she hardly did. I was around my dad who drives well, mentally. I'm not completely sure of this though. only a speculation.

[@-Pam_Guti]

There's a Peruvian film that kind of talks about this! (la teta asustada/ milk of sorrow). Its about how mothers past fear when they give milk to their babies (that's the believe some people have in my country).

[@Andrescastel]

So tired of people always talking about war as an example of traumatic events. It minimizes more common trauma experiences that more people could relate to. I always think of Dr. Gabor’s phrase “trauma is not only what happened to you, but also what didn’t happen and needed to happen for you to feel safe and loved”

[@lijahsmum]

I wish researchers focused more on those connected to adoption. So much of the current research is with people who are raised in an environment where they are surrounded by continuing generational trauma and/or by traumatized parents. Instead of investigating whether trauma was inherited/genetically based, children who display PTSD from birth are told that the separation from their birth family WAS the traumatic event. I'm not saying it isn't traumatic, only that it is the only explanation provided. It places a lot of blame on birth mothers who choose to place and the adoptive parents for participating in what some say is an inherently traumatic practice. Adoptive parents are even investigated for abuse when their adopted children show signs of PTSD but can't say where it came from.

[@lanagievski1540]

I inherited my trauma from my mother and she abused me much like her mother did and her mothers mother, and her mother’s mother’s mother.

[@samiballew4609]

Hopefully by 2021 Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder will be in the DSM finally. Its different from PTSD and poses more complicated problems psychologically.

[@jacqueshuot6288]

An example of inherited trauma can be found here in North America among the First Nations who suffered terribly in "residential schools" whose sole purpose was to "get the indian out of the child". Forcibly taken from their family and community at a very young age they endured the trauma of separation, abuse during years of incarceration and abuse and the trauma of being unable to re-assimilate into their communities. Their children have inherited the trauma with many of the symptoms you've described. .

[@AlexHider]

BoJack Horseman was right

[@jcortese3300]

Of COURSE trauma can get passed down -- trauma becomes culture, and culture is passed down.

[@DavidSmith-sf4rl]

Agreed.

[@ems7623]

Trauma does not become culture - unless of course an entire culture has been traumatized, as in a genocide. But even then, not all cultures respond to such an atrocity by integrating the trauma into culture. Culture is a set of shared, beliefs, values and behaviors that together constitute a way of perceiving and relating to the world. Trauma is first and foremost an internal, individual psychological phenomenon. In most cases someone who has experienced trauma will primarily affect themselves and those few people who they are closest to.

[@allegrabailey6829]

My nan on my mums side's house was bombed in ww2 and I remember being scared for a good while of planes flying overhead. I still get a little scared now even though I've grown older.

[@TJtheBee]

Well, people who have been abused have a higher chance of being abusers. My mother was abused by her dad, and then I was abused by my mom. But that's a nurture perspective, I suppose. Either way, trauma can be passed down, or at least I believe so.

[@celinak5062]

Yeah that's called An Adverse Childhood Experience if someone has 2 or more, they have an increased risk of developing an addiction.

[@TJtheBee]

Adverse indeed. More like a "That Really Didn't Need to Happen to Me" Childhood Experience. :P Ironic how my mother always said I had an addictive personality . . . NO WONDER.

[@TJtheBee]

I don't think so. Gosh, I really hope if I was that somebody would tell me. I try to be very conscious and aware of the abusive behaviors my mother held, and resist those behaviors within myself. I do my best to be a better person, and to appreciate and validate other people, not push them down.

[@TJtheBee]

Thank you so much. That's...that really helps, more than you know. I'll absolutely go looking for help if things change. Thankfully, having anxiety and depression already means that I've learned to find therapists for myself from a young age. :) I never want to let myself become the mean person that my mother was. Not when it hurt me how she treated me.

[@Charles-ig6fr]

Whether biological or through conditioning, this potentially makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint: children of trauma survivors behaving more anxiously toward the source of trauma may have sometimes left them with better odds of avoiding the danger. But if an actual biological connection were more solidly confirmed… wow, would that ever be a fascinating discovery.

[@applemyomg]

I definitely want to learn more about coping skills for PTSD and depression? Because I don't think everyone gets to walk around being in a healthy mental state all their lives? Things they can't control happen. I wonder if scishow could bring up a segment on effective coping skills?

[@SaraS-jq1ln]

If this is true, it may explain a lot of evolution questions. Think about it, the parents have trauma from certain something. That fear and trauma is passed on to their kids. Thats now IN their genes. Used to prevent the same trauma to the kid it makes them fearful of that thing from the beginning. They now survive and pass on that new gene.

[@seatbelttruck]

I love epigenetics so much. I also find it kind of hilarious that Lamarck was more correct than we thought

[@masibo-lawyers]

I was just thinking the same thing!

[@Melanie____]

It seems there is further research that supports this. I thought about it myself since i know so many kids now that have unfounded clown fears. The children of parents who watched IT in the 90s I read an article that said it makes sense.. that’s why a mouse is afraid of a cat having never experienced a cat. So fascinating!

[@TheDentrassi]

It's an interesting topic and something that affects me. I am currently waiting to see a clinical psychologist about mental health issues that have been ongoing since childhood. I've recently been wondering how this relates to my mother's experiences with depression and her father's PTSD from being a far east prisoner of war.

[@June-ic7mz]

Couldnt this be that you learn behaviors from your parents and if they were traumatized and depressed, they probably weren't good parents?

[@susannahXD]

I heard about a test where a female mouse was exposed to a sound which it was conditioned to fear (I think it recieved an electric shock when the sound went off). The mouse was then impregnated and had babies. And the babies also reacted in fear to the sound EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NEVER HEARD THE SOUND BEFORE! I'm gonna go and look for the study now, and see if I can find it. That could be v relevant, non?? What do you think, have you heard of it before??

[@susannahXD]

www.newscientist.com/article/dn24677-fear-of-a-smell-can-be-passed-down-several-generations/

[@susannahXD]

www.nature.com/news/fearful-memories-haunt-mouse-descendants-1.14272

[@susannahXD]

ahhh it wasn't a sound, it was a scent

[@lilyl5492]

I see this is a few years old now, but it is missing the physical body aspect of autonomic nervous system responses being 'catching' - it's not just the content of scary family stories, it's the state of their nerves impacting on your own nerves whenever you are close by. With parents and young children body language, tone of voice and nervous energy conveys almost everything. It conveys the expectation of danger associated with certain sensory signals without need for words. There's a reason why people often step away from someone who is 'buzzing like a fridge' - being around a traumatised person requires effort to stay grounded in your own sense of safety. Without strong self awareness of your own inner safety, in a safe situation in the present moment, it's very easy to catch fright from someone else, like a yawn. You've likely experienced this transfer of 'nerviness' already at a subconscious level. This 'catchiness' is useful to a pack of wild animals on watch for hazards and predators, and humans are just the same. We look to each other for cues of danger and safety sensed in the wider world. The slightest shift in breath by a companion can be enough to put us on alert. As a young child with traumatised parents or caregivers you can't escape it, you can't survive without caregivers so you just have to soak in it. Luckily and unluckily - your body's protective system can reduce sensory input too, make you 'zone out' to protect you from overwhelming stress. But it shuts down your feelings too, when it it keeps happening over time and there is no emotional repair or reconnection to co-regulate your nervous system back to a place of a felt sense of safety in the body. If your parents never received or learnt this, neither will you, till you find someone anchored and safe to share with. Yet another reason why it takes a village to raise a child. We can learn how to re-regulate a dis-regulated or traumatised nervous system to be soothing presence, by creating a sense of safety felt within the whole body with the help of calm, compassionate, safe people, but it is very hard work. Poly-vagal informed or somatic therapy addresses this, as does many traditional medicines that don't spilt the experience of the mind off from the body.

[@mtthwpowers]

I think a good follow up to this video would be a look at family and generational therapies and how they've developed in psychology, probably starting off with Bowen Family Systems Theory and using transgenerational trauma as a lead in.

[@arthurhenriqued.a.ribeiro2078]

So does that mean that people that have experienced trauma should never tell their children about it?

[@tinalevesque5772]

i absolutely despise alcohol simply because of the stories my dad told me about how abusive his alcoholic father was, how it ruined the family, and all that stuff. i have had a taste and its vile, the smell is disgusting too, especially beer. i dont know how people can drink the stuff.

[@peersie9519]

Intergenerational trauma never passed the sniff test for me. The reality is most of human history would be considered traumatic to the majority of people today. This reality would make "generational trauma" way more common to the point of almost everyone having it. What I think this is, in reality, is more like a learned trauma where parents teach what is effectively fear the reactions of this fair inevitably leads them to failure which leads them to blame trauma that they in reality never suffered.

[@lupu_owo]

Doesn't that kid at 2:54 look like Hank? Just flip the fringe around on the kid and boom it's Hank, they even have the same glasses! Or is it just me?

[@Ikajo]

Fears can be inherited even if the parent never show that fear blatantly. How is a different question.

[@simsbury88]

I'm wondering if there's any data on how many generations the epigenetics phenomenon passes down. I know that this research is used by African-American activists to say that there is a biological trauma from slavery still present in their community. From what was presented here, it sounds like that is false, that African-Americans today are too many generations removed from the trauma of slavery to have any negative biological effects from it, but I'm curious if anyone knows if that is the case.

[@quinneby-good2232]

Colin Churchill there are people alive today who’s grand parents were enslaved. Not to mention that the industrial prison complex of the us was founded on the systems established under antebellum slavery and continues to traumatize people to this day. Also there’s the day to day stress of living in a racist society. So explain to me how exactly the trauma of indigenous folks and people of color have been healed in a racist society?

[@eiknarfp6391]

My father’s side of the family have been addicted to something or other as long as they’ve been, whether nicotine, alcohol, chaw, etc. I’ve always had a very strong aversion to anything that affects one’s state of mind, like drugs (including countertop drugs like melatonin), and even vitamins and the like (I also always want to take my glasses off when I see a beautiful thing so I can “actually see it”). This is not a solid barrier, I’m not anti-medicine and I do usually take my psych meds even if I will absolutely get off of them as soon as anyone gives me permission. I will never take any *drugs* though, and no, this is not some nerd ass “I’ll never do any illegal drugs” type thing, I don’t care if you legalize it, I’m not drinking alcohol or smoking weed or tobacco. Idk why I needed to put this on the internet, but I’ve never taken vitamin pills or gummies. I hate drugs with a fervor inherent to my very soul

[@partsshooter]

This PTSD condition couldn't persist within people who indirectly experience these traumatic conditions, if it wasn't told to them by a trusted source, the parent. These are the great influential shapers of a childs personality, who controversially capitalize on their cognitive inability to make sound decisions. If it wasn't told, how would they innately be capable of knowing what existed before they were created?

[@happygucci5094]

I definitely see this in my family- both sides, Mom and Dad...I am so glad I didn't have any children.

[@patchworkundead4787]

Both of my parents are alcoholics and depressives, I have depression, anxiety, and anger issues.

[@princess4509]

This is super interesting

[@Nihilnovus]

That’s actually a great topic

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

Does the influence come only from parents or could a media, for instance, which feeds people with only traumatic news affect a child too?

[@theincarnationofboredom207]

Most likely. Because that, too, is part of their environment.

[@EveryTimeV2]

Remember that PTSD may be 'adaptive' from an evolutionary perspective if the parent has to explain to the child that danger actually is around every corner, and this creates safety for them by making them primed to live in dangerous environments. It pays off to have a way to tell the child and increase its fitness especially so if the child faces the real danger of being isolated as it grows. This theory is testable (in mice), but would be unethical for obvious reasons in people.

[@EmethMatthew]

Where do we go to find info on teaching children with depressed parents coping skills?

[@kariscoyne1886]

Welp. This explains literally everything about me.

[@Archie0pteryx]

Have the addiction effects on children studies been done on step parents and step children? Also, what about children who grew up knowing (without a doubt, being told, etc) that they were unwanted by the parents but not adopted out? I'd aso like to know about deadbeat patents (parents of children that don't live with, acknowledgs (or just asmuch as is required by law) and the chld knowsthe parent is trying to avoid participating in their upbringing, because kids don't know why they aren't loved and the psuedo-abandonment is extremely traumatic- it's not even really addressed much in movies, most single parents (especially dads) are widowers, it's rare when the dad or mom just avoids responsibility. There are a few like Alex from OitNB but not many

[@RosaEstanli]

They should test people who are decedents of slavery.

[@chibi013]

This video made me break out in a cold sweat as images of Bojack Horseman flashed before my eyes.

[@omairahereday7307]

Thank you for the video, its all in question, we don't have the answers, but its great that you put out videos that let us know what research is discovering today ☺😃😄

[@JoaoXii]

A lot of how we see the world and therefore we react to it is inherited, i probably should say learned, from our parents. This is the way psychological disorders get to be inherited in a non genetic way. This should always be in the back of our minds if we want to be better than our parents and this reinforces the fact that the way we assimilate events and how we subconsciously think of those is learned by observation but nonetheless can be changed with introspection and self correction

[@ttrev007]

Could the inheritance be partially due to natural selection? Maybe people who are anxious in a normal environment might have some advantage in a high stress environment. Especially in situations that might increase mortality it could have some effect on survival.

[@carbono12videos]

This explains a bit of Pink Floyd's "The Wall".

[@celinak5062]

How ??

[@carbono12videos]

Celina k the psychological effects of WW2 left a huge trauma in Waters.

[@kairunelastreeper]

Note to your editor. I noticed the green screen popping in just behind hanks faster guestures. Was noticeable this episode and wanted to give you the heads up.

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Is it conceivable, somehow, that having lived through a traumatic event renders someone traumatizing for children that grow _up_ with them?

[@valeriobertoncello1809]

What's up with the saturation in this video?

[@sciencesimplified2350]

Do you explain what happens when you eat raw biscuit/ raw dough and why it is bad for you

[@Ikajo]

Ariauna Stewart Unheated flour is bad for the body. We can't really handle it. So if you eat to much you will feel sick. Smaller amounts are not dangerous.

[@celinak5062]

Salmonella in eggs, it's why you should fry/ boil them. You can get pasteurised eggs for eggnog. Or make vegan ones? With a sidedish with apple cider vinegar in it, to avoid dt2 from the white carbs.

[@Brainwashed101]

Epigenetics is a fascinating subject. Lamarck must be chuckling from the grave...

[@Zohnho]

doesnt methylation only affect expression the non-gamete genes??? if so, how would the methylation even be passed onto the future generations when the genes that are passed on are from the gametes...

[@g1Chikumo]

So what I'm hearing is "don't trauma dump on your kids" and "get therapy before having children"

[@somaticscholar8441]

There is far more hard research than just dna methylation, there is histone modification, small noncoding rna, intercellular communication, and more. He said "its not so far fetched"... no its actually well researched and documented, and there are many biological mechanisms if you just do your research!

[@theincarnationofboredom207]

Of course of environment would leave effects on a child. It's part of natural selection. A mother can be healthy genetically, but if they're not healthy mentally and not well prepared to take care of a child, their parenting-techniques are usually unfavored and in turn their children do not succeeded as well, and if there was still enough risk, their children would usually die.

[@RobinDivine777]

Not inevitable I agree but with this highly pressured and busy society we live in with a culture of binging on alcohol, junk foods, dissociative technologies etc, these elements may waken and exacerbate dormant epigenetic conditions.

[@jeninarvaezmelo656]

I KNEW IT. My DNA did me so dirty.

[@eonguipagho5350]

wow, this explains a LOT

[@midnightsantaful]

is this conflicting with the genetic theory of random mutation? just asking

[@NijeeVsTheWorld]

Now imagine that but add that to African Americans, a psychologist talked about this. This is why I think as a Society it’s important to talk about the past.