What is Generational Trauma? | Overcoming Traumatic Experiences |
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- Lots of things get passed down from generations - stories, heirlooms, genetic traits - but a new field of study suggests that even trauma can be passed down through a lineage. Learn more about the causes, signs and effects of generational trauma, and how you can overcome some of the negative experiences and traits that may have traveled to you genetically.
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0:00 Introduction
0:12 What is generational trauma?
0:23 Adolescent Psychiatrist Gayani DeSilva, M.D.
0:49 Scientific recognition of generational trauma
0:17 Signs of generational trauma
2:22 Diagnosing generational trauma
2:39 Effects of generational trauma
3:09 How to resolve generational trauma
4:07 Conclusion
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born fighting somebody's war
I know how you feel😔 you put it marvelously.
That sentence breaks my heart, I know how it feels..It hurts...
I'm pretty sure I suffer from generational trauma. On my dads side was a line of racial hatred. But in a way he broke that chain when he told and taught me not to be like him. Sadly for him he succeeded because I had to cut him out. My mothers side... was abuse. Her mom and her line was kind and nurturing, but she passed too soon and my mother's father was from the Great depression era. His line of anger and abuse got her so badly she had no control of her verbal and vocal abuse. As an adult now I had crippling anxiety. I was afraid of happiness. But once I learned that I dont need them, learned that I am safe and im not that baby in a high chair crying.. I feel a bit of peace now. I want to only learn from their mistakes. They can't hurt me anymore. I am safe, I am loved, and no one is out to hurt me..... and it might have taken 27 years... but im happy now.
Yes!
You are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! not in YOUR"ASSUMPTION, but based in fact. It's as simple, but just as complicated as that to those that are in generational denial of your learned, astute answer. Thank you.
My entire family back 5 generations almost lived the exact same trauma, abuse and life. My parents did what their parents did to their parents did to their parents and so on.
Break the cycle
I feel like your comment gave me more insight on this subject that the video did
My only advice for you is to not do the same to your children
Same here...I know this is the problem but I don't know how to deal with it...I love my mom a lot... cannot leave her....but it's so hard to bear her trauma effecting me... don't know how to cope with this
So scary
I proudly overcame mine. Years of hard work. A new life and a new beginning. A feeling of being another human being, everything has changed, including my whole body system. I rejuvenated almost 20 years, that's my feeling. I have more flexibility, healthy facial expression, no pain and no depression, no disease.
How sister. Please share.
@@kanyisoncapai8378 basically transgeracional trauma is my field of work. I investigated all traumas from my ancestors with precision. Patterns from 4 generations at least,. I found out secrets, false information about family members, diseases, traumatic events, the connection of all these informations with my personal life. So when situations come towards me I am able to identify and in a certain way avoid them with help of a good therapist. Psychedelics experience is also a big tool to break free trauma. I am also follower of shamanism, the knowledge from indigenous people. They are the greatest healers of this sick world, much respect. I am not afraid to lose people or some illusionary facilities of the world, you must have an ethical style of life during your healing process. Man is a beautiful process. Only gratitude, you are going to lose people,, the toxic ones.
@@kstar6508 Yho sister. You did the work. I'm really proud of you. I love how you say you did it with precision.
Please put up content as this is your work. Your healing has healed the Earth. We would love to too.
@@kanyisoncapai8378 thank you. 😊
Even though I’ve never been sexually assaulted as far as I can remember, I have a lot of nightmares about it and have problems opening up to my husband. My mom has told me some of the things she’s suffered from abusive boyfriends and I think a lot of the fear surrounding relationships of any kind has been passed down to me. You can protect your child all you want from others but they will still learn from the way you navigate your own traumas.
OMG SAME
I don't understand how trauma can be passed down genetically?
@johncaze757 only passed down if the parent puts it on their child. My parents have trauma due to abuse from their parents, I dont have that trauma due to my parents not putting it on me. I have family that was stolen as children and many lines of trauma. Its my family history but not my trauma. Generational trauma is bull in my opinion.
Well that explains why i felt like wanting to die at around 8 years old, even causeing harm to myself. If that is not a reason i don't think I'll ever know
Yeah sorry but I don’t think that has to do with this, you should go get professional help and see what truly is going on in that brain of yours
As a 26 yrs old Cambodian American, I’m trying my best to heal & break the generational trauma I was born into. I’m not perfect, but I’m an extremely self aware person & have done a lot of research to find out why I am the way I am, as well as why my parents & siblings are the way they are. I don’t ever plan on having children so I don’t have to worry about how my trauma may end up effecting them, but I do want to ensure I as an individual have a better quality of life going forward.
Im a lot younger than you, but reading this makes me feel like Im heard :(
Why do I think everyone who wants a child should go to therapy first to be fully capable to raise that human 🥺 .. I want a child one day but I’m so afraid to pass any of my or my family issues.. I hope everyone heals well and live their best life
Great. Unfortunately, many people do not have access to trauma informed therapy and often insurance doesn't cover it, so even if someone is more than willing to do the work, the resources are unavailable.
So that’s what I had been experiencing. Been struggling trying to make sense of my grandmother and father’s xenophobic treatment as Koreans in Japan.
Boo hoo😢
Mark Wolynn discusses this in his book, It Didn't Start With You. If people became conscious of what they were unconsciously inheriting or internalising from their family or ancestors that is not helping and empowering them, they can wake up to healing and resolving whatever effects within them and their life so their descendants can live happy and functional.
Both of my parents have Spanish/hispanic backgrounds so I think you can already guess. At least my mom was able to break the cycle,, somewhat at least
I am of Aromanian background. The Neo-greeks or Anatoloromans are grossly racist to us, burned our village, racially and ethnically oppressed and discriminated us. Misattribute us with Romá, we have literally nothing to do with them. We have no origins from Middle East and South Asia. Ironically Neogreeks are the same genetical as Romá and have the same culture.
Nonetheless, they call us racist terms such as "gypsovlach" and other totally inaccurate rabid barking racist remarks, they are ignorant racist. Don't be fooled thinking they are some altar of civilization. And they would nake poor excuses of this racist discrimination such as utter nonsense that " "vlach" in colloquial Greek means "just uncouth villager". It is really not, it is just a poorly made justification.
My ancestors such as my grandma swiped the generational trauma under the carpet. However that is a peasant way and doesn't solve the problems, the trauma is trasmitted. As I got more and more educated I discovered some horrible history and I became really sorrowful, stessful and began to notice stuff. Neogreeks are emotionally manipulating and also BPD-bipolae kind of persons who are terrible mammals. I wouldn't call them humans.
@@thesecretlibrary890 Generalizing Greek people a terrible sub-humans doesn't make it right. Even if I greek people hurt you. I acknowledge your pain, and your feelings are not irrational. I also grew up with a racist family, my dad is italian. His family were so racist they didnt open the door for my grandma, a very light skinned hispanic woman with hazel eyes and light brown hair. They verbally abused her so much, in such a back-handed manipulative way she got agoraphobia and severe panic disorder. She decided to stay because, its just what you did at that time - you didn't divorce. So she stayed, and then all the dysfunction molded my dad, who married my mom, who also came from a dysfunctional, EXTREMELY POOR single parent family. I hated italians for a long time. I rejected my heritage, I told people i was straight up Puerto Rican even though you could tell I wasn't. I thought Italians were racist, i couldn't stand to be around them. I couldn't stand to be around white people as a whole because the trauma i experienced with my dad and all the racist and manipulative things he justified, I associated with italians. But the thing is, I was wrong. Italians aren't racist as a whole, it was just my experience was italians who were racist shaped my view of them because they hurt me so bad. I think it's good to apply empathy, because it helps you understand that not everybody nor everyplace is full of bad people. it makes you feel more hopeful and then you dont carry around the pain and anger so much.
Yep the Hispanic/Spanish community is rich with generational trauma, my family included
Same. So much fucken anxiety lol.
@@Sbs6393what kind of traumatic events are we talking?
Can generational trauma show as un explained violence as a kid and teen?
well i would guess it could manifest as causing other underlying causes that lead to violence
My mom was horribly abused by her dad and she's always had terrible mood problems. Now my brother and I have severe anxiety/depression. It's been debilitating for me, and it was triggered by a period of intensive stress when I was 11/12. I still have it to this day, but only God knows how hard I've been working to fix it, and I've made progress, but I'm nowhere near being done
The generational trauma in the Cuban community is heartbreaking.
Gratitude 💜🖤✨
My great great great grandfather had stress about school and it was passed to my great grandfather and my brother and me
Who in mental health services looks into generational trauma? I know it's real. My father had the same mental illnesses as I have. He was treated in the same horrible ways he treated me. In a lifetime of trying to get help, I've never had anyone even suggest it. It took me, at the age of 53 to diagnose myself and get the right help I needed. US mental health services are sad and way out of date. Freud and Paget figured this out over a hundred years ago but the DSM took nearly 100 years to catch up.
Great video but anyone watching this is not likely to get the help they need. If they don't live in a mental health services desert, they are likely to be a desert of mental health services that can provide help for people with trauma. Treating trauma takes a skill set most therapists dont have. And even the best trauma therapist is still practicing poorly compared to what trauma patients need. And over 90% of people who suffer from trauma don't know they do. Becuase we, as a society commonly look down on mental health and we don't educate our populace on trauma.
How do I reference generational trauma?
It all makes sense now
ptsd from the colonization.. world war 2
I send you healing. ❤
Can you imagine how many black people are carrying traumas in their DNA and we're not aware of it? The traumas are not being fixed but we're labelled according to the manifestation of these traumas which tend to be violent behaviour.
fr like how many poc and slavs have it is crazy
None cause the shit doesn’t make any sense
I'm not sure you know how DNA works. DNA doesn't carry trauma. It's just a long string of nucleotides. That's it.
I have a question. So if your family members went through trama, but my parents weren’t abusive at all to me, does that count? Like can you experience the side affects of trama even tho you haven’t went through any?
My grandfather broke his leg in 1940. My leg still hurts.
That’s deep!
@@sugarandspice2136 That's generational trauma for ya.
@@larrycrabs5995 yes, it sucks so much.
Same! I've already had to take 3months away from work and 2 rounds of therapy, but I feel like I've turned the corner now. Hopefully the world will be more understanding for my kids when they start having symptoms. .
@@dna9838 lol. Well said!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go heal 3-4 generations of trauma in my one body.
How to prevent my future generation to stop acquiring the trauma from me as I'm suffering from PTSD past 5 years.
The cause and correlation of generational trauma, is passed down through your caregives(?) insistence upon their own transference, projection GASLIGHTING and victimization of the patterns THEY FAILED TO RECOGNIZE AND DEAL WITH before handing it down TO THEIR CHILDREN, essentially burdening new life with others bias, fear and intimidation tactics, learned from their parents that remain unbroken and not corrected. There are monsters under children's beds, and in their closets and these monsters are a result of unbroken generational trauma, that they had failed miserably to understand and correct, do to false hubris, ignorance and denial.
My father my fathers father and so on nothing but soldiers I’m naturally on edge and hyper aware of my surroundings always having and eerie feeling it could just be who I am as a person but doing my job as a licensed armed security I excel at it I don’t suffer panic attacks or depression but I’m always on edge but levels headed
I heard embryo screening can help to stop generational trauma
I know for a fact that stress in the womb can impact this as well and my mother expirence post partum depression.
my mothers longterm unemployment and mental degression. My classmate lied to the police and im not in school. i dont know why it has to keep going.
So nurture is not a thing anymore?
Does this happen in the global south
As a black person in an urban environment in America I agree this message is 1000% true.
Definitely not,
Boo hoo😢
@@George-zd6rbyou need a job and a girlfriend so you can quit being a virgin
What kind of trauma are we talking?
@@kingkazuma2239never argue with people who can’t read cursive or tell time on a rotary clock ⏰ you can’t out argue ignorant It’s a waste of life and energy. 😅
Hmmm.....I wonder if my narcissist husband has generation trauma and became a narc by consequence?
We called this the ‘bio psycho social’ model when I did my training
I can’t overcome it realised it from the womb and 50 years later no real help just chatting and chatting SUPPORT LOVE EMPATHY Never had it never getting it done people are at the bottom of love tank and scapegoat is never going to get what they want as no one really has the answers the world is dirty filthy and crap so generational trauma is new label of the same old pain and that is why slavery is the key to all these labels it is pathetic LOVE simple if you not had that your doomed THE END
Please try, don't give up. I send you love and an infinite spirit of healing.
Is anything on the internet truly private? Anything can be hacked
I think generational trauma would be difficult to specify if you've had a bad childhood
Sapolsky had a good take on this
This is good as far as it goes- but goes off the rails at plopping down a bunch of pills as a real answer without a mention of more direct ( not related to the AMA) methods.
So pills cannot treat generational trauma ...
I am of Aromanian background. The Neo-greeks or Anatoloromans are grossly racist to us, burned our village, racially and ethnically oppressed and discriminated us. Misattribute us with Romá, we have literally nothing to do with them. We have no origins from Middle East and South Asia. Ironically Neogreeks are the same genetical as Romá and have the same culture.
Nonetheless, they call us racist terms such as "gypsovlach" and other totally inaccurate rabid barking racist remarks, they are ignorant racist. Don't be fooled thinking they are some altar of civilization. And they would nake poor excuses of this racist discrimination such as utter nonsense that " "vlach" in colloquial Greek means "just uncouth villager". It is really not, it is just a poorly made justification.
My ancestors such as my grandma swiped the generational trauma under the carpet. However that is a peasant way and doesn't solve the problems, the trauma is trasmitted. As I got more and more educated I discovered some horrible history and I became really sorrowful, stessful and began to notice stuff. Neogreeks are emotionally manipulating and also BPD-bipolae kind of persons who are terrible mammals. I wouldn't call them humans.
I internalized the oppression and the horrors of my people. Instead of being a submissive clown such as some of them and make fun of myself. I take myself seriously and I don't think internalized racism and self-humiliation is fine at all. It reveals hidden low self-esteem. I try my best to recover.
I’m ending my family’s generational trauma by removing the source- my father 😢
Abuse?
I am born of generations of trauma.
What kind of trauma are we talking?
Is it because parents teach them to have this trauma? Or is Or there even if you’re adopted and have no knowledge of that trauma?
Like with certain fish that escape being captured and pass this information down to their offspring. Just in a more subtle way...
I can understand that first or second generation might still be affected by trauma, but the idea that descendents are still traumatised a hundred years or more afterwards indicates I think that families and society and individuals themselves really must avoid perpetuating a victim mindset.
My last grandparent died this weekend, she was 99 and experienced the Liverpool blitz for hand. Many of her peers including my granddad where involved in combat. My grandfather became an alcoholic and beat his wife ans kids. My father too became an alcoholic and beat his wife and kids. And here I am. Grandma’s funeral and Pandora’s box of fucked up shit rears it’s ugly head.
Might I add too I’m UK based WW2 was more severe here Than the US
im trying to understand this generational stuff I'm really trying here but still feels well yeah I'm afraid to speak my mind in fear of sparking a argument or hurting someone these days this is what is caused people like me maybe you also that went trough real trauma broke away from it and learned to cope with it not use it as a excuse etc trying to understand people and their claims and if we deal with it the way we have our hole lives not fearing having a differing opinion someone going to literally have a fit or something about it
my point being the more I try and understand the less I understand
My white boomer father called this "malarkey"😂
Thank goodness for brain scan studies on the subject and the fact that court judges are required to acknowledge it as real.
Your dad isn't wrong.
@@harleyquinn5774 Right, because brain scan studies show emotional trauma. Brilliant. I bet you were the smartest person in your school!
I love how every fucking answer is "get therapy"... yeah ok, must be nice to be able to afford it.
Yes this is a thing.
This is why I am not against anti-natalism
OR, you can go a much less expensive route and use psychedelics. Talk about true therapy.
lots of things get passed down through generations, like memes!
Where is God in all this?
Honestly. It's just passed down sin.
@@kanyisoncapai8378 and than wants us to live perfectly and live in his image
He’s not there
People are not aware of this trauma so how can they break the cycle?
@@BozicAndrijana can he tells us the lottery Numbers
My large family has 3 generations worth of trauma so far and counting 🤣
So if my family has been poor for Generations is that an excuse to not pay my mortgage?🥳
Ari Shaffir
Racism and slavery isn’t the same at all
Slavary was to long ago it maby had a genretial effect on people who are in theire 90s now and even that is far fecht
Generational trauma is bull in my opinion. What my grandparents, parents and ancestors experienced and their trauma isn't my trauma. It has not given me trauma. My trauma is things I've experienced and not things my ancestors have
Oh my God is that an MF encanto reference!!!1? 😳
They dont bring up cultural genocide at all
Assuming a position of perceived victimhood (as a cultural theme) can be passed down generation after generation...even if there isn't anything left to be traumatized about. It's just so satisfying being a victim, and there's power in it. You don't have to take any accountability for your own life or actions (or lack thereof).
❤❤❤❤😮😅😢😊
aha, i wish i will find someone one day who would acknowledge the generational trauma among palestenians, which caused by zionist occupation and genocide
Not sure why they added an Israeli flag when talking about the Holocaust survivors. Jewish people have gone through extream trauma but that should be separated from the Jews who colonized Native Palestinian land.
So to conclude: I can blame Hitler for my anxieties.
I dislike the idea that only special groups have experienced generational trauma...As if life wasn't extremely hard for all of our ancestors at one point or another and still difficult for millions of people living right now. I suggest you consider life just in the last 20 years. We all went through a pandemic, there is a war in Ukraine and recently the US fought in wars in the middle east, , several major earth quakes around the world, there is currently famine in Somalia, a tsunami / nuclear disaster in japan....The list of actual problems being faced by people in our lifetime is enormous..... All people will eventually have trauma at some point in their lives or their parents life, or grandparents life.....The fact that slavery ended 160 years or so ago is a great thing, and that means it affected your Great, Great, Great, Great, Great grandparents or further depending on how young they were when they had children. The holocaust was 80 years ago, They were horrible but no one alive today was one of the slaves and there are very few alive who were in the holocaust. Be thankful that today, you are free, healthy, fed, clothed, safe....Maybe the problem isn't "generational trauma" but psychological abuse from the media that you are dealing with....The media is telling you everyday that your oppressed, hated, seen as less than...the reality is you are probably loved more than you realize.
Wah. I’m a victim.
Christ can break the strongholds of generational trauma if you trust in him, he can heal you.
Omg this is such a bs and people actually believe this? I can't even.
Sounds like a whole new way to be a victim...
As someone with a irish last name i believe this thoery is a load of utter shite. Look at ANYONE and one of their ancestors lived through trauma.
Wow seems like a way to excuse anything.... This makes everyone a victim. Great...
Maybe….Some people that play the victim card unconsciously teach their kids to be victims. If you’re a victim you don’t have to be held accountable….because of your wokeness.
bunch of myths and falsehoods. stop making excuses
Bogus.
This isn't a thing. It's an excuse to be a victim when you have nothing.