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If you didn't have a chance to build a self before the trauma/s then how do you find out who you are?
My abuse started young around 1-2 when we were living at my grandfathers and grandmothers - that is why I know an approximate age.
What have you done to build a self when you didn't get a chance before the trauma/s began?
I do understand...
People do experience traumas and traumatic life events and don't develop PTSD. Just because you live through a trauma doesn't automatically mean you will get PTSD. Most likely there will be changes in that person to adjust to the ways in which they coped with the event/s.
That people grow and change over the course of their lives.
No one is exactly their pre PTSD self, even if their trauma/s happens in their 20s, 30s 40s etc.
Just to be a little clearer if your trauma takes place in your mid twenties or thirties or even when you are 15 then you have a whole lot of stuff to draw on including relationships, friends, schooling, jobs, networks, ability to be present in the world, ability to be present in your body, hobbies, likes and dislikes, routines, exercise, family, eating habits, managing money skills, sleeping habits, personal hygiene habits, body image, that you don't have if your traumas start when you are a small child.
What I am interested in is how, if you are a small child when your complex trauma begins, how you build up a self and a life.
Please note I have responded to some posts multiple times as I think about and reflect on what was said. Some new neural pathways were formed during the reading of this thread.
My abuse started young around 1-2 when we were living at my grandfathers and grandmothers - that is why I know an approximate age.
What have you done to build a self when you didn't get a chance before the trauma/s began?
I do understand...
People do experience traumas and traumatic life events and don't develop PTSD. Just because you live through a trauma doesn't automatically mean you will get PTSD. Most likely there will be changes in that person to adjust to the ways in which they coped with the event/s.
That people grow and change over the course of their lives.
No one is exactly their pre PTSD self, even if their trauma/s happens in their 20s, 30s 40s etc.
Just to be a little clearer if your trauma takes place in your mid twenties or thirties or even when you are 15 then you have a whole lot of stuff to draw on including relationships, friends, schooling, jobs, networks, ability to be present in the world, ability to be present in your body, hobbies, likes and dislikes, routines, exercise, family, eating habits, managing money skills, sleeping habits, personal hygiene habits, body image, that you don't have if your traumas start when you are a small child.
What I am interested in is how, if you are a small child when your complex trauma begins, how you build up a self and a life.
Please note I have responded to some posts multiple times as I think about and reflect on what was said. Some new neural pathways were formed during the reading of this thread.
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