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The first kind is being taught that we caused what happened to us. Children get told everything from, “The reason you don’t have any friends is because you’re selfish,”
enduring terrible events and having people around us act as if nothing happened.
when no one notices, and there is no one the child can safely tell, the memory of the event gets buried in unmentionable pain.
The non-response causes us to doubt our grip on reality, leading us to feel that: we must have imagined the events. the world must approve of what happened to us. we must have deserved it. we must ...
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The sign of being triggered is that you feel a rush of emotion out of proportion to, or unrelated to, what just happened.
