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Absolutely, I don't know if they're identified yet but generational trauma and stress is definitely a thing and it gets passed down


When we use phrases like "generational trauma" being passed down, we end up misleading a lot of people on how genetics work. This phrase is often used in a political context, and to my knowledge there is not a good scientific foundation for it.


Information on epigenetic inheritance

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172332/


I'm familiar with generational trauma from a psychological perspective, but wouldn't a genetical/physiological aspect of it have to be self limiting? I mean, I'm sure we all have millions of years of trauma in our genetic past.


The same could be said for trauma that is passed behaviorally, it is limited eventually. I would actually suspect they are related




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