People of color and trauma

[shatter eyes]

PTSD does not discriminate.
In my view I think this topic raises good questions of how it affects coloured people. However, I would procees with caution as we do not want to start marginalizing each other into groups by origin, culture, gender, and skin colour, etc.

White privilege is a term that can cause confusion. People of Color is there a criteria. How about those who have multicultural blood?

PTSD is PTSD and like brain injuries it affects everyone differently. We are individuals as wholebeings. I do not foresee any healthy benefits of creating more labels of separation.

I hate to see a flood of newcomers claiming they have been traumatized by being a person of colour and want to wear a PTSD badge for societal sympathies because they lack the privileges of a "white" person. I seen this happen in university with color graduate PhD students marginalizing themselves because they felt disadvantaged compared to lighter skin students. As a result they created an unintended divide that affected the willingness of "white" fellow students to share their successes. The lighter skin "white" students and alumni became reserved and at risk of being targeted for their privilege.

TBI just interupted my thought.
Michael Jackson... why did you bleach your skin?

 

[Scarlet13]

Societal abuse can cause PTSD such as threats to your life and being beaten up for who you are or the color of your skin. This is what I was referring to, in terms of PTSD.
Historicle trauma is not PTSD, but is more multigenerational oppression and I don't fully understand this term.
I am not seeking to get into what can and cannot cause PTSD.
I am wanting to gain an understanding of the "layering effect" that can happen between trauma and then being marginilized by society. I am not saying trauma is harder or even different for people of color compared to white people.
I am more reflecting on the lived experience of this and how it all can merge together for already marginilized people.

@Scarlet13 I'm a woman of colour, diagnosed with CPTSD due to violence in Childhood,...

Thanks for these thoughts.
I think its good to be feisty. This signifies strength.
I am working on being more feisty in my life and standing out as opposed to always trying to blend in.