How good was your childhood?
Hidden trauma signs, often viewed as personality, that things might not have been so good after all.
Trauma is not only a result of traumatic big events in life, It can develop as a result of systematic low-level or not so low-level experience of abuse, neglect, gaslighting, and distress, without enough eustress or positive experience to heal them along the way. These behaviours create internal prisons to entrap us in our own lives, keeping us stuck in these cycles.
We never know how to compare our childhood with someone else’s because we don’t know what happens when their front doors are closed. As a child we have little to compare it with. Even talking with my Clinical Pychologist son last night, we concluded the understanding of trauma is so much better now, especially in childhood. This sadly does not stop more trauma being meted out onto children, and of course later into life. Early trauma changes the way the brain develops, reducing the neuropathways for joy and safety and increasing the transmitters and pathways for anxiety, hypervigilance and being emotional locked down in various ways.
There are four recognised ways people’s emotional centres equip them to deal with perceived attacks.
