What Is "Trauma" - and How to Cope With It

Trauma is the result of our inability to process a distressing experience. It’s much more common than we might imagine…and requires a patient examination of our past to overcome.
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“ A trauma is not merely a terrible event, though it is very much that too. It is a terrible event that has not been adequately processed, understood and unpicked and that has – through neglect – been able to cast a very long and unwarranted shadow over huge areas of experience. Many of our greatest fears have nothing at all to do with actual dangers in the here and now; they are the legacy of traumas that we have lacked the wherewithal to be able to trace back to their origins, localise and neutralise…”

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