6 Ways Trauma Might Inform Your Current Life [madinamerica.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 3/11/204:00 AM

By Noel Hunter, Mad in America, March 8, 2020

An all too common experience of trauma survivors is hearing the suggestion, “Why don’t you just get over it?” The idea is that, well, it happened in the past, so it shouldn’t still be affecting you now. It’s as if each moment in life exists in a vacuum, separate and untouched by anything that happened prior to this moment.

The thing is, everything that’s happening right now is impacted by everything that has preceded it.

Our brain filters each perception through a lens of past experience, it predicts the next moment based on past experience, and it reacts with primitive automatic reactions that are—you guessed it—based on past experience.

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