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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5 why does childhood traumas affect you as an adult, and why a lot of people can never get over them?
gpt
As a child, your mind is completely malleable and you’re learning how the world works and how people operate, and if your initial worldview is skewed because of trauma, that’s built into you right from the beginning and it’s incredibly difficult to reverse the effects after they’ve had a chance to grow there for years before you’re aware of them.