*** Trigger warning ***

I do not hope this post triggers anyone to their past childhood, just help you in over coming the trauma you may of faced as a child. If you do feel triggered please do not continue to read the article and PM me and I will help you.

7 Psychological Impacts of Surviving Childhood Trauma

People who come from traumatic childhood backgrounds comparing themselves to peers who didn’t and beating themselves up for not being further ahead in life or at the same level as their peers.

What Is Childhood Trauma?

Childhood trauma. Those words, for many of us, evoke a sense of heaviness and somberness. And rightly so.

But they are also sometimes very misunderstood words.

In my experience as a therapist, the idea of what defines trauma is often not very well understood.

Trauma, by definition, is an event or series of events that occur and where one’s coping abilities fail to metabolize and process the emotional impact of such events.

Childhood trauma isn’t “only” isolated, more easily-pinpointed events like a kidnapping, a car crash, a scary surgery or being assaulted by a parent. (I say “only” because I don’t intend to diminish any of these events in the slightest! Rather, I want to highlight the singularity and traumatic obviousness of such events.)

Childhood trauma can also involve more complex, protracted, less easily “pin-pointable” traumas that come in the form of repeated, persistent, prolonged events involving physical, emotional or mental abandonment, neglect or abuse most often by a caregiver or by those in a position of authority over the child.

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