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  Childhood Trauma Influences Teenage Obesity

  Posted on January 9, 2019 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  I was a pale, skinny child. Pictures of me at five and six show a thin, fair tow-headed kid. But several years later the pictures changed. I began putting on weight shortly after our next-door neighbor abused me. I don’t remember how old I was at the time. I do remember I didn’t tell anyone […]

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