Not Everything is Trauma
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Trauma is, once again, a prime topic in psychological circles. But the term has been broadened to the point that it may have lost its meaning. Not every difficult experience is a trauma, and not every psychological challenge is best understood as post-traumatic in nature.
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"Giving something a label is not processing, it's filing" I think that's one of the things that throws me about a wide variety or folks that I encounter online and in different groups, the pop in with an alphabet soup of diagnoses and theories, but processing. They go "well this is it, so this is how I have to live my life." Like it's fate or something to the point where somehow had, say, a brain injury and someone who just had a tough time clicking socially are in the same bucket.
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Thank you for this. As a current psychology student, this is exactly where my concerns have been. Seemingly everything is characterized as "Trauma" now. Nuance is so important here.
The mental health field has tended to step in the poop virtually every time it has addressed trauma (I’m old enough to remember recovered memory therapy, the satanic ritual abuse delusion that swept the field and destroyed clients’ lives, and critical incident stress debriefing). Perhaps this time is different, but I’ve heard that delirious hope so many times that I have my doubts. There are standard oldish-school methods that clearly and genuinely help (I’m looking at you, PE), but when we’ve sought shortcuts (or simplistic pseudo-neurological explanations for current-life difficulties) the results have tended to be worse than ineffective. By the working definition of “trauma” (to the extent that there is one), I would be hard pressed to identify a person anywhere who does not qualify. Certainly I and everyone I know well does. And the complexity of human experience has been, once again, reduced to a simplistic mantra free of both empirical validation and nuance.
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