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Be sure to catch this important article on infant-child attachment difficulties, altered physiological development and addictions of all kinds that a commenter just posted the link to – and remember, we are born with a fully functioning opioid-feel good/feel bad neurochemistry in operation.  When an infant feels good its own internal opioid brain receptors are filled up.  When an infant feels bad they are empty and the caregivers of the infant are SUPPOSED to respond to the infant appropriately and take care of it so its opioid receptors can fill back up again.

Insecure attachment relations, abuse, neglect, trauma, maltreatment?  These patterns DO NOT WORK RIGHT and what ISN’T RIGHT builds the developing body-brain with the trauma at its core of operation.

We also must not forget the role of oxytocin as a brain-body chemical that modulates attachment – connection to others – and the calm arm of our stress response system!

Please follow this active link to read this article – and thank you very much to the commenter on this blog who sent it over here:

Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex

Post-industrial capitalism has completely destroyed the conditions required for healthy childhood development.

December 26, 2010 by AMY GOODMAN

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