So few of us escape childhood without experiencing at least a little bit of trauma. Even when we have the best parents, things can happen to us. Children are at the whim of the adults around them, and not everyone has a child’s best interests in mind when making decisions that will affect them. Trauma experienced in childhood can rule the decisions you make as an adult. Often, the coping skills we needed as a child backfire on us when we try to apply them in the adult world. Many of us find ourselves repeating the same mistakes throughout our adult lives without ever knowing just how much our decision-making process is impacted by what happened to us in childhood.
Childhood trauma can have a profound and lasting impact on decision-making processes in adulthood. Traumatic experiences during childhood can disrupt the development of various cognitive, emotional, and social capacities, which can influence decision-making in the following ways:
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