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Of course he makes the solution seem a bit too easy - it's usually generational trauma (i.e. the cold parents who didn't give enough hugs were messed up by their own parents, and so on).

I reckon my own ****ty teen years were an indirect result of WW2 believe it or not . My mum's dad was a front line officer, her mum was a field nurse hospital. Both obviously came home traumatised... my mum and aunt were both massively affected, both severe alcohol problems in the end... My aunt made it through the other side and is now a teetotal eccentric old lady. My mum was not so lucky.