The ACE Study reveals a powerful relationship between our emotional 
experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults, 
as well as the major causes of adult mortality in the United States. 
It documents the conversion of traumatic emotional experiences in 
childhood into organic disease later in life. How does this happen, 
this reverse alchemy, turning the gold of a newborn infant into the 
lead of a depressed, diseased adult? The Study makes it clear that 
time does not heal some of the adverse experiences we found so common 
in the childhoods of a large population of middle-aged, middle class 
Americans. One does not 'just get over' some things, not even fifty 
years later(3)."(4)

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