Trauma

For me, “little t” traumas aren’t about ranking or minimizing trauma. It’s about letting myself put more of my experiences into that category, so I can move away from feeling angry or disappointed in myself for being upset about them and instead start to process them. Being able to call bad things trauma has given me a bin in which to throw all these negative experiences, a place where they can settle so I can look at them.--- Sophia June, 18 hours agoApril 6, 2021. Medium.com.Trauma can be easily described as what happens to a person/nervous system when there is too much too soon, too much for too long or not enough for too long. Or, trauma can result from any sudden experience like an accident, attack, or other unexpected occurrences that have psychological, emotional or physical impact. presencemindfulness.comOne definition of trauma is that which we develop language to protect ourselves from.
-- Jasun Horsley, on Hermitix podcast, 2019Social Engineering and Trauma with Jasun Horsley 1,544 views•Dec 22, 2019 48 1 SHARE SAVE Hermitix Podcast 6.6K subscribers
Trauma is any even that has had a lasting negative effect.Francine Shapiro, Margot Silk Forrest
"In everyday language, we use the term “trauma” to refer to extrinsic happenings such as horrifying events that affect everyone exposed to them—events such as tornadoes, wars, tsunamis, or hurricanes. However, as used here, trauma refers to selective, personal experiences that shock and horrify, that undermine our basic assumption that our world has some stability. In other words, trauma here is defined by the way it is experienced by the individual, so that what is threatening and traumatic to one person may not be traumatic to another. For those who experience such traumatic events, there is a deep, compelling, unconscious need to gain control over what was experienced as being out of control. When we cannot gain this sense of control, we sometimes repress or bury our feelings and memories. Such repression is a way of protecting ourselves from experiences that overwhelm our emotional equilibrium, that were so awful we cannot keep them in our consciousness. But repression, as we have seen so clearly by now, does not bury the event alone, nor the feelings and memories attached to it. Rather it involves burying accompanying material along with it. The result is that such repressed memories and feelings are subject to a great deal of distortion."
E.g. ethnotrauma; Transgenerational trauma; Stress-induced trauma; Traumatic stress; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
* Transgenerational trauma is a theory which states that trauma can be transferred from the first generation of trauma survivors to the second and further generations of offspring of the survivors via complex post-traumatic stress disorder mechanisms.
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