Paul Conti

There are all sorts of ways in which the changes to those pathways impact someone.

And that's just one of, we could bring trauma experts together that could talk about that for days.

What is the impact upon the brain biology?

So that then gets changed inside the person.

And from the perspective of those changes, the psychology on top of it changes.

Like, what do I think about myself?

Do I think that I'm worthwhile?

You know, even in my mid-20s after, you know, without formative traumas and a pretty strong sense of self and some achievements, there's a big trauma then with the death of my brother and I start questioning, am I cursed?

Am I worth anything?

I mean, I was 20-something years old and doing reasonably well.

at the time.

How does this impact a child of six, seven, 10, 12 years old, right?

We're sending such powerful messages that then change conception of self, and that negatively changed conception sits upon the negatively changed neurobiology.

And I think if we really thought, hey, let's do the best we can just for humans in general, for the human race, for species in general, is

We would handle children and caring for children so much differently in terms of protection mechanisms, intervention mechanisms.

How many times do you see where now there's been some tragedy and the child gets a little bit of support and they had some therapy that was provided by some insurance carrier that they get once a week for 16 weeks or whatever.

I mean, we should be wrapping our societal resources around

around children.

But we don't use our resources well.

You know, I was just reading, it's a little bit of an aside, but about 300 and something billion dollars a year in cost to the US economy just from schizophrenia.