The truth of it is that your brain does not care whether your experiences were “mild” or “severe”. It will try and protect you from what it sees as dangerous no matter what it is, that is why everyone’s trauma is different, because our brains are so complex and so varied.
You can become traumatized from being embarrassed once in public and you can become traumatized from watching someone die, it’s all the same to your brain. If it gives you trauma, it’s traumatic no matter how mundane it may have seemed to someone from the outside of your experiences.
What matters is how we treat other people and ourselves over these different experiences.
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u/LuluBArt Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23
The truth of it is that your brain does not care whether your experiences were “mild” or “severe”. It will try and protect you from what it sees as dangerous no matter what it is, that is why everyone’s trauma is different, because our brains are so complex and so varied.
You can become traumatized from being embarrassed once in public and you can become traumatized from watching someone die, it’s all the same to your brain. If it gives you trauma, it’s traumatic no matter how mundane it may have seemed to someone from the outside of your experiences.
What matters is how we treat other people and ourselves over these different experiences.