Study unpicks why childhood maltreatment continues to impact on mental and physical health into adulthood

[Health - Medical Xpress - latest medical and]

Individuals who experienced maltreatment in childhood—such as emotional, physical, and sexual abuse or emotional and physical neglect—are more likely to develop mental illness throughout their entire lives, but it is not yet well understood why this risk persists. Many decades after maltreatment first took place.

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