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Originally Posted by Ygrec23
"Trauma" is just shorthand for emotionally unbearable states of being created in reaction to situations imposed from the outside.
Trauma causes developmental issues. It's wrong to think that trauma issues and developmental issues are different categories. Anything in anyone's development that leads to later problems of feeling or functioning is called trauma.
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Yes I can see that the word "unbearable" is significant and why this can lead to a coping mechanism of switching off those "unbearable" feelings - but is it the event that is therefore unbearable, or our feelings in response to the event, or are these one and the same?
Also if two people are exposed to the same event, the outcome for them in terms of thoughts / feelings may be different - (although neither would find the event pleasant) are these differences therefore due to "nature", previous experiences?
So is the reason I am seeing T, not specifically because of traumatic events, but because I didn't have the capacity to deal with them. which is about me as a person?