A New Perspective on Trauma
These numbers have risen because more people experienced some sort of trauma from the pandemic.
Trauma
can be witnessed or experienced that can last hours, days, months or even years after the event has occurred.
Trauma is an exceptional experience in which powerful and dangerous events overwhelm a person's ability to cope (Rice and Groves, 2005). Trauma can be witnessed or experienced that can last hours, days, months or even years after the event has occurred.
When people think about trauma, they often think about only one type of trauma. Big T (or Big Trauma) are universally known traumas such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction. However, there are two other kinds of trauma. Little T (or little trauma) can be individualized and not a collective agreement. For example, losing a pet or bullying can be more traumatic for some and not for others. Then there's cumulative trauma which is prolonged and accumulated over time. This kind of trauma is generational and systemic trauma. Let's learn how this is possible in this video.
After the video, you can see how we react differently in environments due to many things that can happen before the behavior even occurs.
