During my intake interview a few weeks ago we went through a general rundown of who I am, history, the presenting problem, etc...and then he dropped the " any history of trauma?". I was caught off guard, for 30 years I would have answered this as a nope no way, next....I thought about giving an answer like" don't you think the burden of living is traumatic enough? But I didn't say it. Instead, I went" uh,hmmm.....pause.....well...nope!"

I think he knew I was not comfortable saying anything at that moment

But I have been reexamining many things that have happened in my life over the past year and I do think, no, I know there is trauma there but didn't have the voice to answer yes in that moment.

Now I wish I could go back and simply say, yes. Yes, there is a history or trauma and leave it at that. Do I bring this up? Or do you think it will just come out in the natural course of therapy that I do have some trauma in my background? I didn't mean to lie, it just felt like the safest response to give in the moment.