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[Gs172003]

This is super intresting!

Does the child's resilience change the longer the child has a trau...

I would say because it was still occurring as you were becoming an adult. ** still just an opinion.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I would say because it was still occurring as you were becoming an adult.

So it would have had a lesser impact if it stopped at 18 or 17?

 

[Gs172003]

So it would have had a lesser impact if it stopped at 18 or 17?

No. I don't mean literal adult I mean in the " not exactly a child child " sense. I don't know how to say it.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

not exactly a child child " sense.

I know what you mean. Younger children vs almost adults.

Sorry if i took this off topic. Was just wondering about the child vs adult thing.

 

[Gs172003]

I know what you mean. Younger children vs almost adults.

Sorry if i took this off topic. W...

You're fine

 

[anthony]

Does the child's resilience change the longer the child has a trauma?

Resilience has nothing to do with longevity. Resilience is about the capacity to bounce back from difficulty.

People are confusing resilience with exposure and other factors, which you are leading towards risk and categorisation of risk exposure.

Whilst most aspects are intertwined, you can't intertwine them if you want to discuss resilience. Just like resilience has nothing to do experiencing trauma itself.

Resilience is purely about the capacity a person has to bounce back after being exposed to the difficulty.

Children are factually concluded from studies as more resilient than adults.

To be more specific, ones capacity for resilience will have a statistical correlation to affect (trauma duration and severity), yes. But you can't say it affects resilience directly, but instead it changes at the individual level.

 

[Friday]

It happens so readily even in adulthood after healing. Endure another trauma, and people will tell you how everything is now a problem again, even though they healed it and moved on with life. The brain is tricky, and PTSD trickier. PTSD will literally attempt to use every weapon at its disposal against you once resilience collapses again. Your foundation can be solid for years, decades, then it grabs hold of a recent event, grabs everything in your past and throws it back at you, even though you already dealt with it all prior.

As someone with adult only trauma? Currently in PTSD Smackdown Round 2? That. Blargh. :wtf: All of that. Just, yep. So much fun.

 

[Friday]

Conversely, I've been watching my son go through trauma for the past 5 years. And I am betting the farm on the neuroplasticity of kids. For several years I had nooooo idea where he was going to wind up. I still don't know, but I'm beginning to get an idea as he hits his teen years... Having watched him pass through several different stages, then reject them, return to baseline, spin off in a new direction, reject it, come back to it, reject it again, and come back to baseline. Rinse lather repeat. I am beyond f*cking proud of him, I am flat out amazed by him. It's far from certain where he's going to land if/when he survives his childhood, or "who" he'll be at the end of it, or what scars he'll have to show for it... But dammit, he's fighting, and he's fighting hard.

 

[anthony]

All of that. Just, yep. So much fun.

Yer, but the beauty is that because you have done the hard work on other trauma, whilst PTSD attempts to use it against you all over again, resilience kicks in and you rebound those aspects mighty rapid. It will be the new issue that may test resilience, however, with practice, one could theorise that recovery only becomes quicker with prior experience for new events. :D:coffee::cautious:

 

[EveHarrington]

You seriously need to lighten up with communication...

I don't understand. I have been told that I'm too argumentative so now that I'm totally withdrawing from discussions instead of arguing, that's wrong too? I don't get it.

I'm just going to stick with giving hugs and words of support. I need to stick to happy thoughts. Thanks.

 

[anthony]

Eve, we're having a discussion about resilience, and because I disagreed with you, you're now having a discussion about YOU. Resilience is the focus here, not YOU.

 

[oasis2003]

Where are resilience articles/ information found?
Children are extremely flexible and resilient (as a primary school teacher I have witnessed it many times over) if an adult personality is prone to suffer from childhood trauma and other traumas then yes I can imagine ptsd will come back again and again.
Which personality is the one where trauma can happen what ever and they do not develop ptsd ?
Does continued and repeated emotional manipulation during child hood count towards child hood trauma ? Or is it neglect and physical/sexual abuse the main ptsd causer in children or adults?