Dr. Vincent Felitti: Reflections on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

Dr. Vincent Felitti, Director of the California Institutes of Preventive Medicine, presents his pioneering research examining Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), and the lifelong impacts that those experiences can have on children who endure them. For information about ACE research in Indian Country, please contact NCAI’s Policy Research Center at [e-mail].

[@divingbells29]

Here's a true hero who is revolutionizing trauma care- care for children now- not after they get incarcarated or develop serious illness.

[@GrahamMilkdrop]

Agreed. An accidental hero... with humility, humanity and hope in abundance... I like him.

[@sarahcouture24]

I wish that this information was common knowledge. It’s such important data which proves how detrimental childhood maltreatment and abuse are and shows such a strong correlation to adult diseases. I really wish parents and people in general understood that harsh treatment and physical discipline is very destructive to a child’s mental, emotional, and physical health down the road. This man is genius and absolutely heroic! This country needs to shine a bright light on the truth of humanity.

[@yoweath157]

This guy rocks, first video to watch for a trauma class in grad school, knocked it out of the fucking park

[@michelemarie2568]

As someone with a deep and wide medical research background, I am so thankful to find a preventive medicine physician to address the ACES material. He's brilliant, thorough, compassionate and understands the need for our society to create change to protect our children and adults beginning as early as possible. This is what the best of American medicine looks like -- it's rare.

[@Ephilates2024]

In light of your background, do you have an opinion of the work of Nadine Burke Harris, MD, if you're familiar with it? Her book The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity, which is directly related to Dr. Felitti's research, did a powerful job of introducing his work.

[@nadineo1983]

ACE score of 7 here... Im 37, 150 pounds overweight, a single mom, used to be a smoker, I am on SSI because I can't work because of complex PTSD from childhood trauma, im agoraphobic. I have no social life, all I can do is lay in my bed, its The only place I feel safe and protected. I feel so let down by the medical community. They have all this information and are not doing shit with it. I have been to doctors, therapists, psychiatrists and it took my OWN research to discover that I have complex PTSD. Now im officially diagnosed PTSD because the DSM refuses to include complex PTSD. Im not a person, im a shell.

[@juleusghunta261]

[@meln6074]

Hi Nadine. Don't know if you will see this, but I completely relate to your post (I'm a bit older than you though). Ace score 7. It's a very isolating condition... Had a look at your channel and meditations (we use some of the same). Can I also recommend checking out Linda Hall's meditations on KZbin. Very nurturing/healing. I've been finding them very supportive right now. Though I find I keep coming in and out of wanting/accessing self care tools. Maybe you can relate to that too? Also check out the talks/webinars that 'South Pacific Private' offer on KZbin, about healing CPTSD/codependency. Wishing you healing x

[@michelemarie2568]

Don't give up ... there is real help on the way due to the work and writings of many more legitimate voices on the benefits of certain psychoactive drugs in combating PTSD and complex PTSD --- read about them. Your local physician, therapist, psychiatrist and pharmaceutical company will fight this because the treatment is inexpensive, short and will take billions away from the awful medical system in place in the US. CO, OR and other states have chosen to decriminalize these drugs --- that's a great first step. As more people come forward with their success stories as these become not just decriminalized but legalized the dam controlled by big money will begin to crack and then break.

[@garysweeten5196]

May you find healing and love.

[@silentumexcubitor6747]

You're WRONG. Psychiatry is a pseudoscience, a drug racket, and a mechanism of social control. It's 21st century Phrenology, with potent neurotoxins. Psychiatry has done, and continues to do, FAR MORE HARM than good. The DSM is a catalog of billing codes. It's all FRAUD.

[@michaeltoner7690]

Brilliant talk from a brilliant man, thanks for posting this video. So important. It's sad to hear about the avoidance/resistance to using ACE to help people... Hopefully videos like this one will move things along...

[@over50iqeq49]

This is such an important story. I wondered whatever happened to her--she was a friend of mine. I suspected the childhood abuse, but didn't know it was with her grandfather. She told me some very profound things about why she gained the weight back. TY, TY for your studies. It's slow going, but ... it's going. Fingers crossed.

[@vanessapetrea2490]

I so hope she’s doing ok. That isn’t easy to process. Blessings for her🙏🏽💜🙏🏽

[@woodsgift]

Extraordinary presentation, thank you so much...

[@hawkarae]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[@donedennison9237]

Thank you for presenting this.

[@annielapensee9603]

Thank you for a very helpful video. It makes so much sense.

[@maxinehaines414]

I'd like to hear an updated talk.

[@garysweeten5196]

A wonderful talk.

[@wadegoodwin6773]

Brilliant stuff

[@zoeelisebell]

he is amazing this lit me up with excitement im so pleased to hear all this finally adding up like people are really taking this in and finding ways to actually heal the nervous system now and it is so awesome. everyone shoukd go check out irene lyons work if you havent already she is amazinngg

[@zoeelisebell]

he would be so pleased so hear of irene lyons work, after all this, its finally all come together to the very root of it. i would highoy highly reccomef irene lyon to everyone

[@rpgdream9700]

mmm i dono, im a little dubious but, i guess so far everything he has said makes sense, just gota leave a like and comment so I can find this vid again

[@adrianduncandecker1280]

The study had 17k participants. He speaks the truth. In my opinion, trauma causes brilliance. I had a lot of shit happened and I'm alive to tell it.

[@Vbanks83]

what weight loss program is he talking about. sign me up!

[@invictusdomini8624]

Has anyone done SPECT studies on people with high ACE scores, controlling for drug abuse and TBIs (but not to their exclusion), and implemented regimes of neurofeedback therapy for the various fallout diseases from high ACE scores?

[@waldemarlipinski5548]

does it change the sources of the dysfunction?

[@dianadeslauriers4372]

Dr Daniel Amen at AmenClinic, many locations in U.S.

[@Ephilates2024]

@@dianadeslauriers4372 His work is very interesting. Given his presentations, one would expect images that evidenced damage.

[@AprilWatters]

Aren't kids resilient? Is the Lamest excuse. Children need to be built up, protected, invested IN,, deposits made, NOT withdrawals before anyone has made the required deposits! Like our relationships to the planet, it too has limits.

[@denisepoisson2907]

Look up the ACE study. Famous Doctor Who specialized in treating obese patients conducted a study over many years and 4000 people discovered that unhealed childhood trauma often sexual abuse/incest in families creates children should grow up with permanent obesity due to the body trying to protect itself from further abuse. Even when these patients lost weight through the doctors treatment within one year they would gain hundreds of pounds back. Why? Because the body cannot let go of the protective layer until the childhood trauma has been processed and healed. This is an emotional treatment it is not intellectual just talking about problems it is processed by feeling the emotions. Ironically addictions to such things as food help us to avoid feeling any emotions that are uncomfortable. childhood trauma. The ace study Vincent Felitti

[@rmcd823]

Another new thing: eliminating families from the system.

[@nickjamesb2051]

This is an injustice

[@nickjamesb2051]

I don't like the way he says decades..

[@Andrew-yw6kt]

I don't like the way you say you don't like...

[@nickjamesb2051]

@@Andrew-yw6kt just trying to lighten the mood, relax, sit down and have a drink

[@Andrew-yw6kt]

@@nickjamesb2051 I hadn't heard him say 'decade' when I posted the comment. A few mins later I got your point and felt the same...he ain't saying it properly.