20 Signs of Unresolved Trauma
This is an excellent list of issues that are associated with unresolved trauma. I hope you find the article as interesting as I did.
Originally posted on Discussing Dissociation:
Many people enter the therapy process with minimal awareness of their trauma history.�� When the trauma survivors are dissociative, they have the ability to block out an awareness of their trauma.�� They may know that their family had problems, or that their family was dysfunctional, etc, but they may believe they were never abused.
child abuse (Photo credit: Southworth Sailor)
However, blocking out conscious awareness of trauma does not mean that the survivors have no effects of that trauma.�� Using denial and dissociative skills does not mean that the abuse did not happen.�� Denial means that the person simply is refusing to acknowledge or accept the fact that they were traumatized.�� They are pretending they were not hurt, when they were actually hurt very badly.
Even if the memories of abuse are hidden from the survivor���s awareness, blocked trauma / unresolved trauma creates very noticeable and obvious symptoms that���
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