Dr. Daniel Amen

Well, it came from a different generation.

There's a book I love called It Didn't Start With You.

And on our podcast, Change Your Brain Every Day, we interviewed Mark Wollin.

And he talks about how trauma gets passed down through generations, that trauma causes epigenetic changes, these little switches on your genes, and it makes you more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and the thoughts that are associated with it.

With those things.

And it may have nothing to do with you.

Or any experience you have had.

Yes.

that were not blank slates, that were what happened in the people before us.

So like aspartame can affect generations, so can trauma.

And there was a lot of study done on this of children and grandchildren of people in the Holocaust and how it changed the chemistry in their bodies, making them more vulnerable.

to having depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

It's also been found to be true for the children of the soldiers who were in Iraq and Afghanistan, that they have a higher incidence of mental health issues.

Yes, that it's biological and psychological.

So all those circles, they all work together all the time.

Why do you fix that?

Well, one, you recognize those thoughts aren't you.

Yeah.

You just write them down and you evaluate.

Well, sometimes.