[quote=Ygrec23;1998263]. "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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Thank you for this explanation, Ygrec23,
...I understood this better than I have many other explanations...I wouldn't even let my therapist say that overused,stupid word...I called them "situations that I didn't handle well"
...nice euphemism, huh??? lol