How Poverty Sticks With You For Life

 

Economic Trauma



Introduction

When we talk about health and causes of diseases
we often don't consider financial wellbeing to be one.

Unfortunately financial health has deep consequences
both in our immediate health like stress, anxiety, addiction,
insomnia obesity and hypertension to later in life with
diseases like diabetes, cancer, stroke, heart attack ,
post traumatic stress disorder and dementia.
It can also lead to divorce.

Trauma is defined as an emotional response to a
terrible event like an accident, rape or natural disaster.
Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical.
Economic trauma can become generational trauma.


Impact of Economic Trauma on a Child


  • Economic trauma can impact a person from time of being in uterus as a fetus, to the early formative years to school performance, friendship building, truancy, drug addiction, intimate relationships in the future, and repeating the cycle of generational trauma.

  • Economic trauma can even lead to infertility in women due to the bodies response to stress as uninhabitable for a baby hence renders the body infertile.

  • Fun fact, do you know that the reason lifestyle disease are more rampant and fatal to African people is because of the fact that our ancestors grow up was so much hardships that our genes are wired for scarcity and not abundance so the availability of high quality and quantity food means our bodies absorb more then it requires hence predisposing us to lifestyle diseases like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and even cancer.



What can you do to overcome Economic Trauma


  1. Becoming financially literate to avoid perpetuating a generational trauma.

  2. Finding mentors who went through similar struggles but triumphed.

  3. Learn a healthier ways of managing stress which does not involve drugs or any other activity with long term consequences.

  4. Finding a spouse with a similar background financially ideally.

  5. Cutting of a lot of your family members, relatives and friends who will be an unnecessary burden on you and can even compromise your future.

  6. Forgiving yourself and your parents.

  7. Therapy to heal from the trauma.

  8. Coaching for financial growth.


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