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What Happens When You Suffer From Abuse?
"I was always taught that any type of depression, at least that ran in my family, was because of a chemical imbalance," she says. "That's nuts." Abuse leads to a heightened stress response or self-defense response and allocating metabolic resources to your fight or flight system. And if that occurs over a long period of time, those people will slowly, but surely develop metabolic and mental health problems - it runs the gamut of all sorts of problems.