Can Childhood Trauma Lead to Addiction?

Childhood trauma silently turns into

adult addiction. I'm not talking about

alcohol or smoking. People with

childhood trauma are actually addicted

to relief. See, maybe your parents

fought every night. Uh maybe you were

bullied and nobody protected you. Maybe

you were uh emotionally neglected or

abused. Whatever it was, you as a child

grew up in survival mode. And when a

child grows up like that, the brain

doesn't develop the way it should. The

prefrontal cortex, the part responsible

for decision making, impulse control,

and self-awareness, it stays

underdeveloped. And the emotional brain,

the lyic system, stays overactive. That

wiring makes your brain constantly

search for escape. You crave anything

that gives relief, even if it is just

for a few minutes. So now as an adult,

you scroll endlessly. You overeat, you

binge watch, you drink, you gamble, you

run from one relief to another, calling

it laziness, weakness, lack of

willpower. But the truth is that pain

didn't disappear. It just got disguised

as personality. And if you want to break

addiction, we have to stop asking what's

wrong with you and start asking what

happened to