some people walk away from traumatic events pretty unscathed, others recover quickly, still others slowly or never
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Replying to @eigenrobot @SpaceGiko
i'd say few people are truly "unscathed", but just suffer in different ways, at different intervals
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Replying to @swimming_blerd @SpaceGiko
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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Replying to @eigenrobot @SpaceGiko
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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Replying to @swimming_blerd @SpaceGiko
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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Replying to @eigenrobot @SpaceGiko
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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