I think different forms of meditation can be helpful, but not if used to suppress emotions. Emotions being suppressed are similar to pushing a ball under water, eventually that ball will pop up to the surface.

Meditation should never be used to suppress emotions. Anyone who uses meditation for that purpose is using it in a grossly incorrect way.

Parents having problems and divorcing exposes a child to a lot of negative things and distress they have no life skills to understand and they do experience stress and they don’t even know what that means.

So true. Fortunately, nowadays many parents are more enlightened and do seek family therapy during divorce to help the child(ren) learn to cope with their feelings.

I saw what I know now we’re very dysfunctional behaviors in my family. Some of what I witnessed had more affect on me than I realized. That ball I unknowingly kept pushing down did pop up and I began having flashbacks that really scared and confused me. I learned in therapy from a therapist that specialized in helping trauma patients as well as those suffering from ptsd that if something traumatic enough happened I was prone to developing ptsd. I had survived a lot of trauma in my life from a young age yet managed to be resilient.

You are truly a survivor, OE.

Actually, a very good example of this was shown in the movie “The Snake Pit”. Olivia Dehavliand did an excellent job acting in that movie of how childhood trauma can affect someone in ways they are not aware.

I agree. That was an excellent film.