Childhood Trauma, Toxic Parents and Emotional Neglect: Dr Riri G. Trivedi on the Raj Shamani Podcast Childhood emotional neglect is not a milder form of abuse. In this conversation with Raj Shamani, Dr Riri G Trivedi explains why the things that leave the deepest marks are often the things nobody around you would call harmful — the nagging, the withheld affection, the constant comparison, the silence — and why so many adults reach their thirties carrying symptoms they cannot trace to any single event. Below is the full episode, the research behind each claim, and what the findings mean if