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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
I have tried to explain what happens to me to my therapist and that I don't know how to fix it. His reply was that it was like a phobia and that I had to work through it. It doesn't work, it's like whatever is supposed to be there is missing somehow.
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This is the essential difference between developmental trauma and ptsd. Something that was meant to develop was not able to develop after childhood trauma. It is not there because trauma prevented it from coming info existence.
Trauma that assaults the adult self does not cause that degree of overwhelm. The sense of self os intact. It may even be stronger because the self has suffered losses...and learned "i am not my child, he can die and I remain. I am not my legs. I lose them and I am still me. I am not my land and my social position, my society is erased and scraped and here I am in LA still somehow who I always was". It is developmental trauma that causes a person to feel completely annhiliated by real or symbolic losses.