It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

by Mark Wolynn

you and I are three times more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD if one of our parents had PTSD, and as a result, we’re likely to suffer from depression or anxiety.[4] She believes that this type of generational PTSD is inherited rather than occurring from our being exposed to our parents’ stories of their ordeals.[5]