News Trauma Definition - Your Thoughts?

[anthony]

He said you don't know which 50% you are in, until it is too late.

I can tell you which I'm in... I would have gone to the big open oval and sat there, watching it all burn down around me, completely out of harms way.

 

[Anarchy]

I can tell you which [50%] I'm in...

but you had to find that out somehow... ;)

and as the founder of the site - by definition, part of that finding out must have been done the hard way.

 

[Anarchy]

I was thinking about this thread while I was driving around today, and I realized that in many cases, it can only be the individual's cognition that determines whether it is trauma.

There are acts that if they were consensual, or deliberately engaged in, could be none traumatizing and even enjoyable, but take away the self agency, and they traumatize, horribly.

 

[anthony]

My method is just more practical... I'm a practical person, raised that way, mechanical by nature. I see an issue, I can find many course of action to the problem near instantly, then choose the one with the best outcome. My brain is wired that way...

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

I try not to think too much, Anthony. I don't like spontaneous combustion.

Trauma is so broad of a term that it can't be defined per person and situation.

 

[greenleaf]

I have the kind of genetic background where I am probably more susceptible to PTSD than average. Lots of messed up psychological stuff in my family. Three generations in a row of suicide. Lots of depression/addiction/anxiety/violence.

Have you looked into "transgenerational" effects of trauma? While it's possible that some of the issues are genetic, it's also possible that lots of predispositions are passed along via subtle emotional attachment-related abilities of caregivers as well as even the hormonal (stress chemicals etc.) environment in the womb. Then the actual abuse in our environments can get added on...

It doesn't necessarily make any difference on a practical level what the cause is; maybe it could make a difference if one were thinking of having kids, though, to think that one's behavior and healing could leave one's kids in a decent situation re. this stuff rather than thinking one's genes are permanently flawed...

Once again, those Dutch people seem to have done great research; they were among many nationalities with massive effects from WWII of course.

http://www.ejpt.net/index.php/ejpt/article/view/20832#Starting to care for the consequences of the war

 

[rightkindofme]

@greenleaf I have done a fair bit of research. We work with a pediatrician who did her doctoral research on intergenerational abuse patterns.

I have very carefully crafted a life in which I can overcome many of the neglect/poverty/abuse cycles that my family has lived in for many generations. But these things are complicated.