Randy Kessler

Nancy, it gets into their brains.

I bet it was in her brain, in her thought process, that she was at risk.

It was always there, and that's why she was talking about it.

It'll come back in so many forms, Nancy.

It could come back, as I've said before, at a pre-conscious, pre-verbal level, meaning they have the sensation of seeing a traumatic scene, but they can't really put it into words.

They could be walking down the street someday and see somebody walk in front of a car and

have a flashback and think, oh my God, that car's going to hit that person.

They could become people who refuse to form attachments because this premature loss of the parent makes them too terrified of abandonment.

It's going to affect them on all levels.

Nancy, it could predispose them to personality disorders, to drug abuse, to alcoholism.

This will have a traumatic, traumatic effect.

The best thing that can happen for these children

is to go into a new family where there are predictable and safe attachment systems so they can kind of... They're with their relatives now, Dr. Bethany.

That's good.

Nancy, it's called evocative memory.

Let's say you go on a trip and you take a certain kind of perfume or product on the trip.

And then years later, you pull that product out of a drawer and you smell it.

You will think about that trip.

So anything those children saw, smelled, felt in that room, it's going to be evoked.

So let's say they see the color red.