An open letter about creating more education around childhood trauma

An open letter about childhood trauma education.

The biggest elephant in the room of mental health is child abuse. The biggest lie in society in 2019 is that once you are no longer a child that you are no longer impacted by child abuse. The sad truth of today is that we are lead to believe that if you have been abused the best course of action is to just “deal” with it. To a point, I agree, but that is not the entire story. Today in America, five children will die in their homes. That does not take into consideration the thousands that will be abused mentally, emotionally, physically, and sexually.

I am going to ask myself a question that I proposed, why is education around childhood trauma not more prevalent? I am also going to answer that question. These are my thoughts:

There is no question that education needs to be at the forefront of the battle lines in this war. We own it to ourselves to not only educate ourselves about trauma, and its impacts, but also to create spaces in which access to information can be had without shame, guilt, or prejudice.

In writing this, I am going to get push back, and that’s OK because I want this conversation to be had. We have to take into consideration that intensive mental health care treatment is a possible…