with as basic science and as much analogies as possible, please explain why does childhood trauma carries on into adulthood and even at a later age, even when it’s not happening anymore later on.

Question

Why can’t the brain simply forget about it since it’s from a long time ago and still end up having some form of mental health issues later on in life because of it?

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Answer 1

There’s a book called *The Body Keeps The Score* by Bessel van der Kolk, which is all about why trauma is expressed in the body.