Twelve Areas Of Life Childhood Trauma Can Impact
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Severe and protracted, interpersonal childhood trauma affects different people in different ways depending on many factors such as our age at the time of the trauma/s, our social support system, our genetic and biological predispositions, and many other factors. Notwithstanding this, however, there are several areas of our lives that, are commonly affected by severe, interpersonal, traumatic experiences in general and, below, I give thirteen of the main examples. Of course, not everyone will experience all of them and different people will experience them in varying combinations and in varying degrees of intensity and chronicity. Furthermore, some will experience significant symptoms not included on this least (but may well be covered elsewhere on this site which you can discover using the site’s search feature.
THIRTEEN AREAS OF LIFE THAT CAN BE IMPACTED BY SEVERE, PROTRACTED, INTERPERSONAL CHILDHOOD TRAUMA:
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- The brain (including its physical development, functionality, interconnections, and speed of ageing.
- Physical health and the immune system.
- Cognitive and executive function (controlled by the brain’s frontal lobes) e.g concentration/attention, mentalizationand memory
- Sense of trust, sense of safety(physical, emotional, relational, moral, ideological, and cultural), sense of betrayal
- Survival responses e.g hyperarousal, hypoarousal, dissociation, avoidance, emotional numbness, hypervigilance
David Hosier BSc Hons; MSc; PGDE(FAHE).
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