Trauma or drama, two very distinct things to me. S*&% rolls downhill from the family of origin, no doubt at all about that. Trauma is usually from childhood abuse and/or neglect, drama is usually what FOO does to us as adults. Drama can be re-traumatizing, that's for sure. Distressing events can happen such as relationship breakups and problems and work and all kinds of other things, but trauma to me is about the things that give us PTSD symptoms, more the physically scary S$%&^ rather than the emotionally scary ****.

And I don't mean to trivialize the psychological effects of drama, but I thought her therapist was saying that she was causing herself trauma in the sense of (for example, I don't know anything about zoo's life) her boyfriend beating her or being mugged or S&%^ like that.

And my T likes to tell me that I am overly precise about things, so perhaps this is one of those times when I should just sit down and shut the $%&^ up.

and hiya hanky!

Anne

Anne