The Bomb in the Brain Part 2 - The Freedomain Radio Interview with Dr Felitti

[jozhikas]

Can I donate bitcoins? Just for the sheer ease of doing so.

[jcrongoXisXaXjerk]

i'm donating soon

[rzoggyie]

Thank you very much for doing this interview. I have watched some videos of Dr. Felitti he is doing great work. The questions and insight that is gleaned from this interview is import. As some one who has experienced severe trauma ACE-8 I have been fortunate enough to be doing well in life. I worked really hard to change things for me and my children. I have started a blog memoirofaredemptivelife.blogsp­ot.com. The focus is on surviving childhood trauma and experiencing a good life.

[LietMonty]

Ste what you drinking? If metal can you don't worry about salt in your lips interacting with metal and you drinking it? You must be taking chelating agents because you seem pretty smart. I don't see therapist bc I keep thinking I want kill her. I don't see men bc I want rape and harass all. I want to be good. I love shrink too much.

[LietMonty]

i am 5-1/2...i was ritualistically raped but level II sex offender but i was intoxicated (given drugs/acolhol by him and he he secretly put his bodily fluids in drink to bing me via voodoo and told me after) and think i liked it at first so i do not know to count it as full. I get suicidal ideation and homicidal ideation when certain but general people try to interact with me. I want to stab them and cut myself. Listen Chief I am trying to get to video 4. Rude people here die!

[LietMonty]

@LietMonty 5-1/2 score not age DOH

[LietMonty]

Oh my two brothers and uncle killed themselves. How it affect me? Uncle nothing. Latest bro IDK. First bro I sad sometimes and sometimes I wish join him. But I want go Fresh market and get mixed race brownie. My brain doesn't think right and I try hard be "normal" but I get neurotic and rubber band snap hard at times and scare people off. I have a pet multi-racial gum bear for 1 year. Excuse me I want normal if not extraordinary. Kill rude people. 

[sniped101]

the weight was coming off faster than I could handle it.. My wall was crumbling.. My wall was crumbling...

[slaughtz]

I got a score of 1 on the ACE exam; possibly 2. As you said Stefan, the worst cases are shown on media & it means that people with a score of 1 or 2 are largely convinced they had a "normal" or "natural" childhood. Meaning, from the societal pressures, they end up taking ownership of a lot of traumas & it effects them immensely. I, for example, still feel I have no "right" to externalize my problems because people have it worse. I end up internalizing all my mistakes & that I can't change them.

[greycloud24]

bleh i took the ace test and i have a score of 10. there are 5 increased risks that i have not already achieved. everything from early alcohol and drug use, to anti-psychotic anti-depressant and anti-anxiety prescriptions. i didn't realize that my life was so heavily dictated by my early childhood.

[Oneworld87]

Apologies for going slightly off-topic, and to all whom have experienced childhood trauma do accept my deepest sympathies (and those of all the viewers who haven't expressed them but would otherwise do so). Anyway, I was wondering of what your experience (if) of arbitrary cognitive enhancement is -- of utilizing mere thoughts and "tuning" into the intuition of one's mind to acquire skills that we otherwise wouldn't have attained consciously -- via some means (e.g. perhaps though...

[Oneworld87]

@Oneworld87 ...dream incubation, self-affirmations (constant), self-induced trance states or by other various arbitrary means). From personal experience, and to what I currently know of this form of cognitive enhancement, one should realize that there is inevitably another instance of themselves that reasons with all the sensory input acquired, but which only acquires an arbitrary perspective of those inputs by a state of sensory deprivation (i.e. whilst sleeping -- in other words, ...

[Oneworld87]

@Oneworld87 ...their unconscious self). For most, they may be unaware of their other self that becomes active (perhaps we could liken these distinct variations of the "self" to personas or presets), but may acquire a response from this preset if the individual (the conscious mind) experiences overwhelming emotion ascribed to a particular problem (thereby giving rise to those "ahha!" moments that proceed shortly after one finds themselves stressed with a problem exceeding the resources...

[Oneworld87]

@Oneworld87 ...currently available to their conscious self for solving the problem). Although this can solve overwhelming problems, I'm wondering of your thoughts relating to how this may be used to automate the learning and development of entire skills (even at the compensation of a temp/perm loss of current skills), and if current summarizations of what is known pertaining with these troubles of mind are insufficient, then I'd also appreciate any speculation on your behalf of how one may...

[Oneworld87]

@Oneworld87 ...attain arbitrary cognitive enhancement. Anyway, would also like to say that your videos are of incredible elegance and have served me the most incredible insights pertaining to the stratified power structure of humanity! I sincerely appreciate all of your efforts in pursuit of a better world! Thanks Stef!

[TheDawnAmber]

Exactly! I feel so vindicated. Fat is invisible. It is a safety zone - it keeps people just that far away - and it makes sense that it comes from child abuse - it all makes sense now - wow!!!

[corndogers564]

@TheDawnAmber You know what? I've never looked at it that way. Brilliant observation.

[elmaxidelsur]

thanks

[elmaxidelsur]

thanks...

[laurajdahl]

I disagree. Poverty is not a causal factor of abuse. Perhaps obesity because of the crap they sell in the stores that are riddled with preservatives and addictive chemicals. But also because healthy food costs more. Fruits don't last long. Not like a twINKY.

[laurajdahl]

Most persons who are obese have either an emotional, or mental problem. Sometimes a physical issue like slow thyroid. Obese people sometimes also remain obese to protect them-self from people. Forming relationships with people. I know when I was real thin I attracted LOTS of men. Mostly worthless or abusive. However, now that I've gained weight, I rarely get approached/asked out. So, in a weird way the fat is protecting me. I know it would be healthier to find therapy to get healthier. but no $

[laurajdahl]

The main stream media is ALSO the problem. The movies, news reports, and tv shows are just horrible and encourage murder, greed, lust, selfishness.

Yes, parents are the primary educator.. Or should be.. However, lets be realistic, they aren't stepping up to the plate. Lets face it we have forgotten our morals..

[jdaemon33]

hi Stefan,

I would like to thank for this B.I.T.B series you have put out. Just some wonderful information!

At minute 33:35 you make reference to a "diet" they used for bringing obese people's weight down. Do you happen to have a copy/sheet/reference to that regimen they used that you could possibly put up?

Thanks,

David

[FlailingJunk]

@jdaemon33

He calls it "supplemented absolute fasting."

[Stinkemon]

In Finland there is serious discussion about adding "fat-tax". So it's in a way adding an insult to injury. It's a crazy world.

[laurajdahl]

@Stinkemon

That is really sad and wrong! Clearly obese people are in Pain! Emotionally or medically. They should help them not discriminate and hate them. They need love and guidance and not evil.

[kymberleedellaluce]

This is just fabulous.  Thank you so much. I am someone who had a lot of trauma and has done a lot of inner work so as to not repeat these patterns. This is all so affirming.

I also want to say that you are a wonderful interviewer. You are so good at listening and reflecting as well as offering respect. Thank you.

[stefbot]

@kymberleedellaluce thank you so much, I'm really glad that you found it so useful, please feel free to share it wherever you can

[kymberleedellaluce]

@stefbot Absolutely! I am posting it on FB, Twitter and my blog. The world needs to hear this.

I've seen only a small sampling of your work, but from what I can tell you are approaching social problems with a great deal of both pragmatism and compassion. That's a powerful combination and, to my mind, exactly what our world needs. I am truly thankful and look forward to exploring more of your work.

[andthereisntone]

brilliant. tx.

[pentelesoikoon]

Its socially protective. People will expect less from you... BINGO!

[stratcatavarious]

Home for the holidays with Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr

Planes Trains and Automobiles was with John Candy and Steve Martin

FWIW - two of my favorites

[medini2]

could it also be that the damage done by excess steroid like toxins in the body from traumatic events r/t child abuse are also worsened by the lack of certain nutrients that help the body eliminate toxins..like iodine or magnesium for instance, both known to be extrememly deficient in the american diet in particular...and add the insult of flouride and mercury and bromine in our water & foods, etc..how do these studies stack up with countries that do not have these poisons to deal with ?

[TSMPimpDaddyPain]

@medini2 This is a good point, what I was gonna bring up....also throw in the toxic substances/viruses in the vaccines, and aluminum in there as well which damages the brain. This ACE is a good study but these other things that the big pharma and food companies are knowingly poisoning the population with, can't be ignored.

[medini2]

@TSMPimpDaddyPain

Totally agree, and since "the people" either ALL have amnesia OR cannot find the strength to STRONGLY OBJECT to the poisons in our water,food and air, then, shouldn't this doctor TELL US how they factored in for these poisons when doing these studies and discuss ways of "neutralizing" them?

Ironically, he talks about how paying the high price for "secrecy" didn't apply to him, but, Steph guides him away from the topic.

The disconnect and the consequences continue.

[givebirthathome]

Doulas at hospital births, even if they merely SAT IN THE ROOM, AND DIDN'T SPEAK AT ALL, throughout a woman's labor, were shown to decrease the laboring mothers need for pain medication, and even the rate of C-sections. (Klaus & Kennell). Apparently we humans were not meant to be solitary animals, and benefit from even the slightest, most mildly positive human support when we are under stress.

[givebirthathome]

Some kinds of abuse are not even on our radar screens yet.

Adoption for example, is extremely traumatic, and unjustifiable unless the parents are quite disturbed. Yet, because it is an over-a-billion dollar industry, the effects on separated infants..(often from mothers are manipulated and guilt-tripped into surrender, who have little wrong with them) is not discussed.

And psychiatrist Clancy MacKenzie has documented that separation from the primary caretaker between the ages of two to

[givebirthathome]

three, produces a trauma, which when restimulated, say through the separation of a failed romance, can lead to the development of schizophrenia.

These separations can be produced quite inadvertantly..through maternal illness, family emergency, or quite commonly through the mother having the typically unnaturally close-spaced further child, and being hospitalized without her older child for several days.

[givebirthathome]

Geneen Roth's "When Food is Love" (1991) is a good book on the topic.

One way to improve childrearing is to have Community Centers for parents of young children, where they can meet each other and socialize, and get support. That's not "telling people what they should do", that's bringing them together for what they naturally want. But we have such issues about childhood...tax dollars are subsidizing places for seniors to go play bingo, and not for mothers to get support!

[AcupunctureEdu]

Great video. I am in private practice and don't accept insurance. A 35% reduction in doctor's visits is good for my business and not bad. The new patient referrals is what drives profitability not perpetuating/prolong treatments of current patients.

[mynameaborat993]

Eating in your sleep? Good god.

oh.... God.

[unclesamfatg]

I have 6 if you count that my mom beated my dad when I was young.

[eDrifter1]

Just the first part alone helped me understand myself so much.

[SpazzzDog]

This is all common sense. I thought everyone knew this and not just me.

[menonfire12]

Improve parenting is the real cure !

[halo2pc]

★★★★★

[MarmaladeINFP]

I appreciated that Stef pointed out the medi's focus on extreme cases which distorts the public perception. The problem with society isn't found in extreme cases but in the everyday events of abuse. The media rarely looks at the larger context and instead looks at events as isolated.

[TaterTyphoon]

@MarmaladeINFP Banana

[okcupidvitame]

What we did was "simply talk about things..." <3

[Thoreau2006]

My response is an answer to DaveDoggOwn's question in case you see it out of context.

[okcupidvitame]

Sad but also empowering information. Great interview.

[DaveDoggOwns]

Does circumcision count as an ACE?

[Thoreau2006]

In my opinion it would count as an ACE, because it is a painful religious ritual. This physical pain can be very traumatizing to a child. The same could apply for foot binding of young girls and women of China that happened for centuries.

[DecassyJake]

That last comment was for SpikeBravo.

[DecassyJake]

I tottally empathise with what u say here, pleez don't give up on therapy tho..I'm planning, with a little bit of philiosophical and psycological orienteering(so to speak) I will be ready to approach therapy in a far more focused way. Good luck Dude!

[fluff125]

I think that representative democracy serves a vital function because it channels all of the anger, frustration, and destructive energies of man into a peaceful election, sort of like a horse race with really high stakes.

[lnd3005]

I hadn't never heard of this "Rat Park" experiment, though I had heard of self-doping rat experiments many times. Sounds like really neat work. I'll have to check it out.

Also, that abuse-themed soap opera is a pretty interesting idea.

Thanks for the video!

[lnd3005]

* hadn't _ever_

[furyofbongos]

Stef - as an interviewer I very much appreciate the way you allow the subjects to fully express their thoughts without interruption. Charlie Rose is a good example of a poor interviewer. He constantly interrupts and spends a lot of time expounding on his own thoughts.

[furyofbongos]

Also, your preparedness rivals and more often exceeds any professional interviewer. I've noticed that the interview subjects seem to respond positively to this, resulting in spirited responses to your questions and very rich content for the listener.

Keep up the great work!

[stefbot]

Thank you so much, I really do appreciate your kind words!

[gypster2004]

Glad to have helped you, much love.

[ocelot814]

This is such nonsense. This is the same bigotry all cults use to justify this need to understand why people are the way they are. Are they saying if your obese you have been abused? This is stupid and ignorant. This is why they throw up numbers because they know what they are saying is nonsense.

[babaluto]

There there now just keep your pretty little head in the sand and let those roots just grow around. Don't go and worry yourself one little bit.... Here, you want a cookie? Why don't you go outside and play with your imaginary friends and let the adults talk amongst themselves.

[ocelot814]

Adults? Please.

[juliecranford]

They said like 11%.

[ocelot814]

11%? That just proves how inane these stats are. You take any attribute you'll find issues with a few of them.

[quakergamer]

I am also happy to see that my medical formation is up to date on a lot of points. For example, we did learn that there was a link between chronic stress and primary pulmonary fibrosis.

Once again, many thanks and happy holidays.

[quakergamer]

As a medical student, I have learned a lot about how to successfully approach the whole obesity and its co morbid conditions. Thank you Stefan and Dr. Felitti about this insightful video.

[gypster2004]

Hi friend, I am a person that went through mental and physical abuse from my father for the first 12 years of my life mostly, till the divorce. I've been hospitalized three times in my teens for depression and suicide, and I suffered from those symptoms till I was 25. It was then I began to study the essence of 'right thought and right action' that the eastern philosophical religions taught. Later on it was Patanjali's yoga sutras. And most recently it was Ekhart Tolle. You don't need to ...

[gypster2004]

... believe in the metaphysics in any of them, just use the tools they give to get to the source of any illness, which is only our thoughts. I can say now that i am whole, healthy and for the most part, happy coupled with periods of deep inner peace. Just FYI, I still do not "believe" in any god or metaphysical thing, I simply do not believe anything over what I experience. I am not here to convert anyone, I just wanted to share what worked for me. I am also open for questions and advice. Love.

[greenghost2008]

that explains why a lot of fat women i meet are depressed and hard to get along with.

[DecassyJake]

absilutly fascinating..."It's hard to beat something that almost works"...whenever I give up the cigs, I spiral into anxiety..Ive never quite understood why, till now.

[juliecranford]

I thought he said "it's hard to get enough of something that almost works".

[PsyogiBottoms]

As someone that has had 4+ traumas before the age of 4 - I can honestly vouch for all of this.

42 - on Effexor, 6 years of therapy - multiple strange ailments and my mother - worse - COPD, and everything you mention and more.

Learning about all of this has helped to help me heal myself - definitely the No. 1 priority for our world to address.

So many issues I've solved trace back to the trauma of my initial experiences in life - forever destroying my peace and health.

Much hard work.

[RoyvanKeulen]

Very good interview and series!

Will definitely donate some $ for this (if only for Stefan's face after hearing some positive things about religion/confession ;) )

[hargilad]

LOL, the religious stuff could be good false self band-aid but hardly long term solution for trauma, as we see in the worldwide violence evidence.

[RoyvanKeulen]

I wasn't defending religion as an institution, I just pointed out how Stefan went in his natural defense-mode when it came to religion.

[sexdrugsRnR]

reading "The Roots of Addiction

in Free Market Society".. hmm

[juliecranford]

Huh, when I first started putting on weight, it actually happened twice, once when I was 10, and then I lost a bunch of weight, then started gaining again at age 14. I don't know why either time.