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Originally Posted by Sannah
A person could learn to never express their feelings if they had a neglectful parent who didn't pay any attention to them or a parent who literally stopped the child from expressing feelings. I suffered from #1 and never had anything traumatic happen to me. Being ignored sucked big time, though and caused a lot of problems.
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To me, "trauma" isn't just being beaten or sexually abused. "Trauma," as far as I'm concerned (and based on my reading) includes all kinds of negative behavior on the part of a parent that interferes with or stops development of appropriate attachment relations between parent and child. I suffered from #1 too and as far as my T and the books and articles I read, that's "trauma." Really traumatic trauma too.
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