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Children living in the shadows of addiction. Episode 4. The Damage.....
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A quiet house can be the loudest place a child knows. We explore how growing up around addiction trains the nervous system to scan for threat, turns bedtime into a vigil, and carves patterns that show up years later as anxiety, hypervigilance, and hard-to-name shame. Drawing on developmental neuroscience and clinical practice, we unpack why unpredictability reshapes stress and emotion systems—and why these adaptations are not weakness but survival.
We follow three lives to make the science human. Leah, a teen labeled defiant, reveals how cutting moved her from chaos to calm…
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