What percentage of health issues does the speaker attribute to unresolved trauma?

Dr. Don WoodResolving Your Trauma-Based Challenges So You Can Unlock Peak Performance

What You Need to Know About Mental Illnesses

19 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Don Wood (speaker) asserts that common mental health symptoms—anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress—are manifestations of deeper root causes, primarily unresolved trauma. He states his belief that about 80% of mental and physical health issues stem from unresolved trauma and argues that treating the root cause removes the symptoms.

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Anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress. That's a symptom of a problem. There's a root cause of the anxiety, there's a root cause to the depression. It doesn't get anxious to annoy you. It's a symptom of something that's happening. I believe 80% of the health issues that we're dealing with, mental health, physical health, are coming from unresolved trauma. So it shows up in symptoms like anxiety, depression, post traumatic stress. So very often when people come in with any of those conditions, the first thing I say to them is, when we treat the root cause of the trauma, those symptoms, symptoms no longer exist because they're just symptoms of the root cause. And if you solve the root cause, you solve the problem.