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 The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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

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