All adults were once children. And everyone’s childhood was different. Someone will sincerely call their childhood happy, and their parents loving and dearly loved. Others write novels based on their childhoods, over which entire generations of sensitive readers shed tears. Whatever you consider your childhood to be, it contains the reasons for your current problems. American researchers found that 64% of the adult population faced negative childhood experiences. And 40% experienced two or more types of traumatic situations. What kind of negative experience is this? Research describes ten types of negative experiences. This includes physical abuse, verbal humiliation, living with depressed or drinking parents, and others. This study did not include factors such as childhood in poverty, bullying by classmates and teachers, and death of parents. It turns out that more than half of children in the affluent United States have been traumatized in one form or another. If we take into account the peculiarities of the history and culture of our country. For example, a whole generation of people who grew up in the difficult nineties, when more than half of families found themselves below the poverty line. The percentage of adults who have experienced traumatic events in childhood will be even higher. Stress experienced at an early age often becomes the background for our attitude towards other people, failure in love relationships, careers and the development of diseases. It cannot be said that diseases arise only due to negative childhood experiences. Many factors influence the occurrence of diseases. Imagine your health in the form of a jug. You live in a city with a poor environment, you eat poorly, move little, experience stress, and there are also viruses and infections around you. Your vessel is slowly filling. At some point, the vessel may overflow, something will become the last straw, and then the disease will develop. Negative childhood experiences complicate the situation; a person has just begun his life’s journey, and his vessel is already half full. This is why it is so important to work through negative childhood experiences with a psychologist, and not just try to forget them..