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The Rise Of Trauma, The Word

The Rise Of Trauma, The Word

More people are talking about trauma than ever before. The number of articles and books published about the topic has grown substantially in recent decades. Over 5.500 podcast titles contain the word “trauma,” while the TikTok hashtag #Trauma alone has over 6.2 billion views. Social media engagement (likes, shares, reactions) ranks in the hundreds of thousands for posts mentioning “trauma,” and the term has skyrocketed in popularity as a Google search term.

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Recovery From Trauma Of All Kinds Is Very Possible

Approximately half of all people exposed to trauma actually go on to experience “post-traumatic growth ”—a transformative and positive psychological experience in the wake of adversity that protects people from trauma’s negative effects.

So while traumatic events can be li...

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Some People Who Experience Trauma Develop PTSD. Others Do Not.

Yet only a small proportion of people exposed to traumatic events (including the unexpected death of a loved one, violence, sexual assault, natural disasters, or vehicular accidents) develop PTSD. In fact, it’s estimated that just around 6 to 8% of the population experien...

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5 (Of The Most Pervasive) Myths About Trauma

5 (Of The Most Pervasive) Myths About Trauma

  1. Trauma Is A One-Off And Distinct Horrific Event
  2. Trauma Always Leads To PTSD
  3. Trauma Is Always A Disorder
  4. Trauma Has To Happen To Us Directly
  5. Trauma C...

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Myth 2: Trauma Always Leads To PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating outcome of exposure to trauma(s) that entails intrusive and distressing memories of the traumatic event(s), avoidance of things associated with the traumatic event(s), impairments in memory and distorted thoughts or beliefs about one...

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Trauma: The Key Points

  • Trauma does not have to happen to us directly in order for us to experience its negative effects.
  • Trauma does not have to change our brain forever—ample evidence shows that recovery from trauma is very real and very possible.

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AHONA GUHA

A broad definition of trauma is useful;

an open-ended one isn’t.

AHONA GUHA

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Trauma Might Not Even Be An “Event”

Trauma can also result from social and systemic factors like poverty and racism. Additionally, some research suggests that trauma can be transmitted from parents to offspring through mechanisms that influence DNA expression. Trauma is not, therefore, always a single event that changes you...

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Myth 4: Trauma Has To Happen To Us Directly

We don’t have to directly experience one or more traumatic incidents in order to be negatively affected by them. “Vicarious” or “secondary” trauma refers to a profound shift in one’s worldview and sense of safety resulting from repeated exposures to other people’s trauma...

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Myth 1: Trauma Is A One-Off And Distinct Horrific Event

An isolated event that severely violates a person’s physical and psychological safety can significantly alter that person’s mental (and physical) health. But trauma isn’t always a distinct and horrifying event. Many people’s experiences of trauma are chronic (think growi...

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Myth 3: Trauma Is Always A Disorder

Experiencing trauma can lead to or exacerbate a range of emotional, behavioral, and physical health issues. Disorders other than PTSD can result from trauma—including acute stress disorder, whose symptoms mirror those of PTSD but typically arise immediately after trauma exposure ...

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No Two People’s Responses To Trauma Are Exactly Alike

Many factors influence whether and how someone recovers from traumatic events, including their age at the time of the trauma, their personal coping skills and access to resources, what supports they have in place when trauma occurs, and whether they can access timely and effectiv...

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Trauma: The Takeaway

Recovery from trauma of all kinds is very possible—a reality that myths about trauma tend to obscure. With the right kind of support, trauma survivors can learn to regulate intense and overwhelming emotions resulting from past adversity, rekindle a sense of physical and emotional safety, ...

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Myth 5: Trauma Changes Our Brain Forever

Experiencing trauma can alter our nervous system’s threat detection capacities, keeping us constantly on edge and on high alert for danger. But there’s evidence that our brains remain “plastic” well into the latter years of our life. Effective interventions for trauma—including e...

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Despite its increasing popularity as a topic, many people still hold some serious misconceptions about what trauma actually is. Here are five of the most pervasive myths about trauma—and what research has to say about them.

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