some people walk away from traumatic events pretty unscathed, others recover quickly, still others slowly or never
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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for sure--how you deal with it is up to you, but for most of us, these things are better acknowledged than ignored
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eg: was attacked with a fillet knife, was nervous + talking a blue streak at clinic, MD threatened to suture my genitals if I didn't go mum
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read one way this is a horrifying story but my experience and recollection of it is characterized by hilarity
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