![]() ![]() What symptoms might someone with trauma experience? Life loses charm, meaning, purpose when traumatized. The brain has changed and the person is no longer able to be present, “An illness of not being fully alive in the present.” Disengagement and fear lead to lack of interest and willingness to engage, and reluctance. They spend lots of energy staying under control, not blowing up, not collapsing. Some traumatized individuals never feel safe. There is complex trauma, where more than one event has happened, usually across time, in different conditions, and not on a predictable schedule, such that the individual lives in constant expectation, primed, or numb. Others had what most people think of as trauma: frank emotional, sexual, or physical abuse, usually by someone they knew, or an accident threatening bodily integrity, or serious illness. Most have experienced early life trauma – moving, bullying, parents who yelled or were emotionally unavailable, parents who were depressed or anxious, not seeing love in the home, school failure or humiliation, conditions that disrupted secure attachment or caused a constant sense of fear, hypervigilance. ![]() Around 90% of the clients in my practice, perhaps more, live with a trauma history. ![]()
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