The worst part for me was thinking of the men, women, and children struggling with the effects of ACEs and toxic stress, walking around every day without knowing what the problem was and, harder still, not knowing that there were effective treatments. Their doctors don’t tell them because chances are, their doctors don’t know. To anyone looking at the day-to-day practice in the average doctor’s office—or looking anywhere else in society—it was as if the research didn’t exist. The more I knew, the more intolerable it felt to me that almost no one seemed to have this information.
