24/10/2023
Many different experiences can lead to trauma. Childhood trauma encompasses all the upsetting experiences you may have encountered during your childhood. 😞 These distressing events can include physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, as well as physical or emotional neglect. The loss of a loved one, abandonment, or any life event that can cause you to experience distress (such as accidents, disasters, arguments, etc.), traumatic events like physical violence, when experienced during the developmental stage, can have effects throughout adulthood.
In addition, life conditions that lead to stress can also result in childhood trauma. For example, being bullied, which may seem normal and expected for adults, can be traumatic for a child. Additionally, it's important to remember that since every individual experiences life in different ways, you cannot know which life events may have traumatic effects on whom. What may not be traumatic for you could be traumatic for someone else. At this point, what truly matters is how a person perceives events and how they feel about them. Finally, childhood traumas are not always directly experienced by the child. For example, witnessing a loved one suffering or violent scenes on television can also affect children.
The effects of childhood traumas can manifest in countless different ways in adult relationships. This may not be true for everyone. As mentioned earlier, every life event can affect each individual differently.
