The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity—A Transformative Guide to Understanding Childhood Trauma and Health

by Nadine Burke Harris

from primary-care clinics and asking about ACEs as well as health status and mental-health measures. Much like the original ACE Study, the population was 83 percent Caucasian and 82 percent college-educated. What the researchers found was that the numbers fell within a few percentage points of Felitti and Anda’s results—demonstrating that Alberta was as affected by ACEs as anywhere else. People with high ACEs were (again) shown to be at much higher risk for depression and anxiety and also to have a greater risk of asthma, autoimmune disease, food allergies, cardiac disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), migraines, fibromyalgia, reflux disease, chronic bronchitis, stomach ulcers—and the list goes on. People were astounded to see the profound effects of ACEs that had previously been unrecognized in their communities.