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Mental Health Phases of Child Development in the Womb and Impulses

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Hey anonymous posting,

Do you think that you could forward my thread to "mental health." If it ends up in this location but is found to be out of place, could it be forwarded somewhere more appropriate rather than hitting a dead end? Thank you.

But on to my point...


There are all sorts of side effects to mental health disorders. A few come to mind. In OCD, people need to perform compulsions to balance out. In a plethora of others there's tics or body movements. Things like that.


Is it possible that dormant impulses during the first 9 months of life explain for a lot of internal conflicts people feel later in life with certain mental illnesses?
 
I do believe that our time in utero influences us as much as the neonatal time and everything beyond. The body chemistry of the mother, when certain hormones occur and how strong they are, stress (cortisol), and the whole environment (physical and psychological) of the mother are by default also the environment of the child. But beyond that I also believe that we come into life with that mysterious thing called "nature". I certainly saw that with my own infants. As subjective and anecdotal as that may be, I was in basically in the same health and the same psychological state during both pregnancies and yet my two sons could not have had more different orientations to life. There is a mystery to this that people will be trying to explain in any number of ways forever. I myself like the mystery of it.;)
 
There's an increasing body of evidence about the role of epigenetics in mental health conditions - so not specifically the environment of the womb, but definitely that the experiences of the mother cause permanent physiological changes that affect the foetus/child/adult. For example, women who experience trauma responses are more likely to have children who develop anxiety disorders.

This is where my conspiracy theory comes in about the increase of low level mental illness in the West being related to people living and reproducing through two World Wars. :)
 
No, I haven't! Sounds fascinating. I'll check it out when I get some time to read 'for funsies'.
 
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