i'd say few people are truly "unscathed", but just suffer in different ways, at different intervals
some people walk away from traumatic events pretty unscathed, others recover quickly, still others slowly or never
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possibly an issue is that when an Objectively Awful thing happens but one doesn't take it to heart it's unlikely to be flagged as traumatic
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i disagree with that--trauma affects people, whether they immediately understand it as such or not
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this is why cultural practices which normalize and ritualize trauma can be so toxic over the long term
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another reason I am pushing back is that later I did experience a genuinely traumatic experience later in life, and the worst part . . .
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was a partner who insisted years later that I was Still Traumatized and pushed me to see a therapist again etc etc etc
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I did end up seeing a therapist, and we spent most sessions strategizing about how to deal with partner's weird fixation on my past trauma
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asserting you understand someone else's inner life when they are explicitly contradicting you is pretty much a terrible idea + often awful
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