This article provides a brief overview on the outcomes of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) with respect to dissociative symptoms and attachment disorders. Background:  Adverse Childhood Experiences, extreme stress, and dissociative symptoms There is considerable evidence regarding the relationship between childhood abuse or neglect and dissociation symptoms in adulthood with an earlier age of onset, as well as a longer duration of abuse and parental abuse significantly predicted higher dissociation scores. The relationship between ACEs and dissociation is fully mediated by mentalization; this means that the important predictive factor for dissociation is not if you have been abused as a child,