Healing Damage to the Brain

It has become quite clear that damage to our brain can occur when we suffer from two kinds of  adversity. Harmful Interventions and Harmful Neglect. The slides above do correlations between Adverse Childhood Events  Scores (ACE) and later difficulties in life. ACE Scores are drawn from the number of severe losses in a person's life. Key scores arise from the loss of a parent or loved one to death, divorce, drugs, mental illness, chronic illness, etc. 

Look at the slides and see how the issues of drug addiction and suicide are clearly related to the number of Losses in childhood. A ACE Score of Zero has very few incidences of addiction or suicide but a high Ace Score of 4 or more has a large correlation. 

Two points come to mind from these data.
1. Let us do as much as possible to prevent loss, trauma and abuse. It is impossible to prevent deaths but we can provide big brothers and sisters for orphans. Second, we can focus on treating people with addictions and supporting families with a parent in prison or on drugs. 

2. Let us do everything possible to provide inner healing for the brains of those suffering from high ACE Scores. 

Please read about the ACE Score for Nikolas Cruz, the young Hispanic man that begged for help for his panic stricken life and got little if any. 


Harmful Neglect: 

Lack of Housing
Lack of Food
Lack of  Clothing
Lack of Nurture
Lack of Encouragement
Lack of Education
Lack of Morals
Lack of Protection and Safety

Harmful Interventions:

Harmful Physical Punishment
Harmful Verbalization
Harmful Sexual Treatment
Harmful Emotional Rejection

There are Three Levels of Harm:

Shock: Rare or Occasional Occurrences
Symptoms: Interruptions in ability to interact with others. Excessive shyness, anxiety, fear of others, withdrawal, etc.
Hyper interactions with others; ADHD, compulsive talking, hyper extroversion

Trauma: Common Occurrences
Symptoms: Fight reactions, easily angered, bitter, 
Flight: Hides from disharmony, cannot stand conflict

Abuse: Regular and Harsh Occurrences
Mental/Emotional/Physical disconnections 

Send me suggestions about how churches can provide help for people in pain. 

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