Sexual Abuse as a Child Changes the Body's Biochemical Response to Stress

Sexual Abuse as a Child Changes the Body’s Biochemical Response to Stress

9th October, 2018

12 October 2018, News, Newsletter, School Psych

[Source: Medical X-Press]

]Anxious depression, often resulting from childhood trauma, causes body changes which mean that standard depression treatments are often ineffective, according to new research presented at the ECNP in Barcelona.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) affects up to 20 percent of Europeans, and around half of these people have “anxious depression” (psychological anxiety like high levels of anxiety and nervousness, plus somatic anxiety, such as gastrointestinal symptoms); which is associated with greater severity, poorer outcomes, and higher possibility of suicide. Now scientists have concluded that the biochemistry of patients with MDD and anxious depression is different and that patients with anxious depression need to be treated differently. In addition, patients with anxious depression who have undergone sexual abuse or neglect as a child have a tendency to have a changed biochemistry.

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