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I struggle with the word trauma because I fell its been overused and hijacked. If you think of anyone well known on social media and they go through something so so minor- like a starbucks manager yelling at them for mistreating employees they run to social media to talk about being traumatized by the experience and then begin to celebsplain trauma and what it means.. In otherwords if you use the word 'trauma' you better f******g know what trauma is and how dealing with it through therapy and IP stays at hospitals or IOP/POP can really hurt. Like a broken arm seems to hurt more 3 weeks after your cast because it is healing.
For me I dont think I have had any "official" trauma work. I saw the same therapist for 16 years and he heard and validated it all. I had my husband in sessions, my mother,brother,... many people almost a reverse AAamends process. But it wasnt a grand plan . I would say the first 3-6 months we just talked about me, and the present which would lead to a past event. So maybe it was trauma work. Sometimes I would get depressed or feel hurt for a bit after a session- again I felt like I did when I broke my arm- pain in order to heal. I broke the therapist relationship because at 16 years we had done all the work and were nearly friends. In fact he has 23 years of sobriety and brought me to my first AA meeting. But then again I was seeing him at meetings so it was time to cut the cord. I didnt have a therapist again until 2018 and she does indivivual for us and family sessions.
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