The Childhood Trauma Doctor: Your Childhood Trauma Changes The Shape Of Your Brain & Causes Parkinson's! How Not To Ruin Your Kids! Dr. Paul Conti

We are living in an epidemic of trauma, causing disease and death, so why are so few of us ready to face it? Dr. Paul Conti is a general psychiatrist and expert on treating trauma, he is also the founder and CEO of Pacific Premier Group, PC In this conversation Paul and Steven discuss topics such as, our current epidemic of trauma, why trauma is making you age faster, how you inherit trauma, and the ways that trauma can lead to an early death. 00:00 Intro 02:04 The Invisible Epidemic 04:12 What Percentage of the Population Has Traumas? 06:39 Your Brother's Suicide 09:43 Trauma Is Causing All Sorts of Illnesses in Our Bodies 12:35 How Trauma Speeds Up Your Ageing 14:31 How Trauma Affects Us at a Cellular Level 15:49 Trauma Leads to Early Death 18:01 Is There Anything Killing More Than Trauma? 19:15 The Different Types of Trauma 23:46 What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker 26:30 Why Some People Experience Trauma Stronger Than Others 29:07 The Impact of Being Different 31:54 Developing Trauma Later in Life 35:21 How Do We Know If Trauma Is Being Passed On? 38:55 Do We Need to Understand Our Parents' Trauma to Understand Ours? 43:22 Post-Trauma Syndrome 44:11 How to Know If We Are Traumatised? 47:18 Trauma Shows Up as Addiction 50:18 What Tests Can Be Done to See If We Have Trauma? 51:12 Self-Destructive Shooting Methods 54:33 People Are Dying from Prescribed Meds 56:38 How Does Trauma Change Our Brains? 58:17 Trauma Creates Cognitive Blind Spots in Our Brain 01:03:14 We Tend to Seek What Harms Us in Order to Fix It 01:05:49 Becoming Addicted to Our Victimhood 01:07:27 What's the Role of the Limbic System in Our Traumas? 01:10:01 Shame Keeps Us Alive 01:11:57 You Can Build a Different Story Around Your Shame 01:16:08 How You Are Treated Determines Whether a Situation Becomes Traumatic or Not 01:17:46 How to Alleviate Our Shame 01:19:31 How Bringing Up the Trauma Helps 01:22:47 The Link Between Sleep and Trauma 01:24:28 The Importance of Sitting Alone with Your Thoughts 01:25:09 01:26:07 Sleep Problems Need to Be Urgently Addressed 01:27:33 Why You're Not Sleeping 01:28:50 Link Between Weight and Trauma 01:30:45 Advice for People That Think They Can't Change 01:33:40 Training Your Brain 01:36:04 Can You Completely Get Rid of a Trauma? 01:37:03 How to Stop Being Triggered by Trauma 01:38:18 Saving Lady Gaga's Life 01:41:53 Last Guest Question You can purchase Paul’s book, ‘Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It’, here: https://amzn.to/4ceTKhf Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: Uber: https://p.uber.com/creditsterms Vodafone V-Hub: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/business/sme-business/Steven-Bartlett-Digital-SOS?cid=psoc-ent_li_ebu_/brnd/Stevenbartlett01/aws/11.23/SB Shop the Conversation Cards: https://thediary.com/products/the-cards  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices