Obesity & Child Abuse
Added 2024-04-01 14:00:10 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda answers patron emails.
00:00 Is there a connection between childhood sexual abuse and obesity?
04:15 How was the ACE test developed?
28:42 The original ACE test questions
43:17 What is correlated with ACE?
1:08:01 What could trauma recovery look like?
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April 1, 2024
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Roxanne Gay's incredible memoir Hunger talks about the link between her sexual assault and weight gain.
Emma Regan
2024-04-11 15:09:01 +0000 UTCI just lost a friend to cancer. He was in his mid 40s and grew up with severe abuse and was disowned at 12 for being gay. Obviously he could have still gotten cancer despite his upbringing but as I grieve his passing I can’t help but wonder if he could have been here longer if he had a different upbringing.
Kiyoko
2024-04-10 16:10:04 +0000 UTCKind of “trauma dump” to explain why divorce can be traumatic af for kids. Some parents handle divorce the best way they can and are kind, fair, respectful etc. But a lot of the time it is extremely traumatizing for the kids. My parents divorced in 2002 and me and my brother were very traumatized by it. Not by them separating from each other, but how they treated us kids during the divorce & after the divorce & how they treated each other. We were used as pawns as children, my mom punished my dad by rarely letting us see him at first, she tried to make it so he legally couldn’t see by doing insane things. I was around 11-13 when she took my private journal and read it in court, twisting things in it to make him look incompetent. I think I wrote that my sister let me have a sip of her cooler at 13 & she turned that into him allowing me to drink. Because she wasn’t able to get sole custody (thankfully) we essentially lived out of a suit cases for a few years going back and forth. It was extremely stressful and anxiety inducing for me. Eventually as older teens me and my brother went to live with my dad but there was a million horrible things that happened because of the divorce. And at some point they stopped talking to each other at all. My mom doesn’t know I tried to kill myself, she doesn’t know about how mentally unstable both me and my brother were because we were only comfortable to let our dad see those parts of us but he wouldn’t talk to her and she wouldn’t talk to him. It was also traumatic to have everything you know ripped away from you. We came back from holiday with my dad & as soon as we walked in the door my mom surprised us by taking us away too a new house without my dad. Now none of her children talk to her, my brother still has a lot of issues because of their divorce and how we were treated. I’m very thankful they spilt up, but how it happened was horrible.
MK Average
2024-04-06 01:37:38 +0000 UTCI've seen clips of it, and that show is so sad. The doctor is often very harsh and treats it as an issue of willpower (at least in the clips I've seen). When there really needs to be therapy and mental health treatment.
Teo
2024-04-02 20:18:31 +0000 UTCI’ve watched a few seasons of “My 600 lb life,” and it’s so common for a history of sexual abuse to come up in the subjects’ background. In later seasons they are faster to refer people to therapy, but it’s so odd that it isn’t a standard recommendation right out of the gate. I know personally when I’ve lost weight to the point of being conventionally thin, I feel so much more “seen” in an uncomfortable way (as in, feeling evaluated by some men as a potential sex object) going through the world. I find it intimidating, definitely something to learn to regulate feelings around.
Eliza Rowley
2024-04-02 16:01:35 +0000 UTCWhen you say victims would gain weight to "protect" themselves from sexual abuse, that's subconscious most of the time, correct? Sorry, if I missed this. Is it the same underlying behaviour for eating disorders, where victims would want to shrink themselves instead to "hide"?
Sofiya
2024-04-02 14:50:19 +0000 UTC55:30 Kirk, you can't say it like that, of course that's what a husband of a torturer would say
Emily
2024-04-02 11:55:29 +0000 UTCSame! “The Body Keeps the Score” introduced me to the ACE study.
Jocelyn G
2024-04-01 22:57:53 +0000 UTCI had no idea that there was a tie between obesity and sexual abuse... wow! Also, the addiction insight on sacrifices and... I forgot the other word, was really interesting. I'll have to check out the addiction deep dive!
Caitlin House
2024-04-01 22:33:15 +0000 UTCI’ll take almost any opportunity to shill this book, but The Body Keeps The Score is absolutely fantastic and is what introduced me to the ACE study. Cannot recommend it enough, and really enjoyed listening to this in depth breakdown of these issues!
Kevin Egler
2024-04-01 20:04:54 +0000 UTCI know what you mean! The majority of my family members have drug and/or alcohol abuse issues, but I overeat. They give me grief about my weight but at least I don't steal money or crash my car because of food. Also, it's frustrating to go to the doctor's office because instead of asking about mental health my doctor just gives me a sheet of paper showing what my dinner plate should look like.
Julia Smith
2024-04-01 17:35:09 +0000 UTCOne of the reasons I'm very hesitant to seek help for binge eating is because I'm afraid of what behavior I might take up instead to soothe me. My family has a history of drug addiction and I'm afraid that if I give up bingeing, I could become a drug addict like my father. So even though relying on food is unhealthy and distressing, the thought of becoming my father, and or, my mental health plummeting is even more distressing. Hopefully I'm able to find a therapist soon who understands this and can help me overcome these issues.
Mackenzy Collins
2024-04-01 16:21:52 +0000 UTCDr Kirk used to smoke, who knew! I also love chips and they helped me quit smoking too haha ^_^
Daphnee
2024-04-01 15:54:06 +0000 UTC
