The Leaving By Erick Erikson Analysis

“We are all dust. All Dying. All losing. All forgetting. We are all leaving all the time.” Human life is a continuous cycle of remembering, forgetting, and how we can be affected by anything. This quote lead to my topic of discussion after reading, “The Leaving”, where 5 children were taken as kindergarteners into a science experiment in hopes of erasing their childhood so they could live life as a worry free adult. They were returned at age 16 with no recollection of anything that had happened the last 11 years, causing pain, loss of self, and confusion of who they should be. With these problems alone contributing so much pain from a lack of childhood, it is certain that those people with damaging childhood experiences will be affected in
I am sure that everyone would have their definitions based on life events or experiences that have personally shaped them. This could be experiencing poverty, bullying, or traumatic events. The way we function in our adulthood can ultimately have direct result on how our parents nurtured us as infants. As a parent or guardian, his/her role is to provide love and support when the child is in need. This too often does not happen, as a repercussion the infant can be especially sensitive and distrustful. These children will grow to be unsociable adults. This entire process is known as Erik Erikson's first stage of psychosocial behavior, Basic Trust- which can directly help or harm someone’s mental maturity as they grow older.

The ACE study was conducted at Kaiser Permanente and shows how Adverse Childhood Experiences can affect both physical and mental health across a lifetime. These occurrences will ultimately destruct the mindset and functioning of a child. An ACE can be described as:
Emotional and physical neglect
Sexual abuse
Substance misuse within
The lack of proper attachment can affect how one views a relationship and can act around a partner. Adult relationships will be quickly broken because of clinginess or extreme paranoia. A quote from “The Conversation” stated that, “I thought I would die never having told anyone about my childhood.” Adults can not even share their story because of how damaging their child experiences were to their mental well-being. There are adults from every walk of life that have problems resulting from childhood directly, enough so that they would never bring up what had happened. Some adults instead bury their secrets and use their own coping mechanisms to try and overcome their past. Childhood adversity will inhibit your ability to fit in and find out who you truly are. As humans, though, we all have the ability to adapt and change after traumatic experiences, but that depends on the motivation and willpower to do