The Resilience Documentary

202 Circle Park Drive,Sebring FL 33870

15 November, 2022

Description

Here’s the description of the documentary, from the producers of Resilience: Resilience opens with Dr. Robert Anda from the CDC in the 1990s, who explores a hunch that a difficult childhood led to greater risk for things like smoking and heart disease in adulthood. Three thousand miles away at kaiser Permanent in San Diego, a preventive medicine doctor discovers that more than half of his obesity patients had been sexually abused as children. By chance, the two doctors meet, and collaborate on the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study. Although it was controversial to even think of asking patients about taboo subjects such as divorce, child abuse and neglect, the ACE Study produced a public health revelation. ACEs are now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from cancer to diabetes and addiction to depression. And with it, a new way of thinking about health and social problems. It’s not, “What’s wrong with you?” It’s “What happened to you?”