What exactly is a trauma?
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A significant negative event. This can refer to just about anything bad, including physical, mental, economic, or spiritual issue.
A significant negative event. This can refer to just about anything bad, including physical, mental, economic, or spiritual issue.
Trauma is defined in the dictionary as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It’s interesting this forum is geared to the simple explanation because there are many of us who have experienced childhood trauma. The way trauma gets locked into our systems is through the breath. When an event occurs, the breath is held momentarily and the experience becomes a part of who we are. For example, child puts hand on stove for the first time and learns how to burn. Another extreme example and one just as devastating is to tell the child she or he is unworthy in any form. A traumatic and true example of this is the christian family who rejected the child because of his need to be a her. He/she walked into the school he/she attended and let loose the trauma experienced in childhood. Imagine if the child was given the opportunity to heal the original event, would the need for murder have occupied the thoughts?
Trauma is defined in the dictionary as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It’s interesting this forum is geared to the simple explanation because there are many of us who have experienced childhood trauma. The way trauma gets locked into our systems is through the breath. When an event occurs, the breath is held momentarily and the experience becomes a part of who we are. For example, child puts hand on stove for the first time and learns how to burn. Another extreme example and one just as devastating is to tell the child she or he is unworthy in any form. A traumatic and true example of this is the christian family who rejected the child because of his need to be a her. He/she walked into the school he/she attended and let loose the trauma experienced in childhood. Imagine if the child was given the opportunity to heal the original event, would the need for murder have occupied the thoughts?
I have heard it explained as a very stressful event that you are unable to be removed from. Think about being in a warzone. Bullets are whizzing overhead and all around you, but you can’t leave for various reasons (your fellow soldiers feeling deserted, getting shot or blown up, etc.), Being unable to leave an extremely stressful event can then leave a lasting impression on the persons consciousness which can then linger for a long time, or even a lifetime.
Speaking from an evolutionary point of view- aside from experiencing it, trauma responses can also be inherited and passed down to your offspring to help them “adapt” & avoid dangers for survival. I guess this is also how natural selection works partially.
Even if you’re at home, your workplace or a club, you can still develop trauma based on what makes you feel unsafe.
We are born into this world with a certain level of trauma, to help understand the dangers and function rather than be “haunted” by it.
We now have plenty of an overwhelming number of factors around us that’ll determine our survival in today’s world.
I think we’re WAYY too overwhelmed to keep up with it
I have heard it explained as a very stressful event that you are unable to be removed from. Think about being in a warzone. Bullets are whizzing overhead and all around you, but you can’t leave for various reasons (your fellow soldiers feeling deserted, getting shot or blown up, etc.), Being unable to leave an extremely stressful event can then leave a lasting impression on the persons consciousness which can then linger for a long time, or even a lifetime.
Speaking from an evolutionary point of view- aside from experiencing it, trauma responses can also be inherited and passed down to your offspring to help them “adapt” & avoid dangers for survival. I guess this is also how natural selection works partially.
Even if you’re at home, your workplace or a club, you can still develop trauma based on what makes you feel unsafe.
We are born into this world with a certain level of trauma, to help understand the dangers and function rather than be “haunted” by it.
We now have plenty of an overwhelming number of factors around us that’ll determine our survival in today’s world.
I think we’re WAYY too overwhelmed to keep up with it
Something very bad happen, which changes forever the chemistry of the brain and how the person sees the world.
Something very bad happen, which changes forever the chemistry of the brain and how the person sees the world.
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