I have talked about childhood trauma a lot in previous articles so I won’t go into the mechanism at length here. But in short, our experiences and environment in our formative years shape us into who we are as adults. As children, we experience many traumas and “microtraumas” that many of us are not even aware of nor identify them as such.
Dissociation, after all, is our primary response to childhood trauma. And so, we carry trauma from our formative years long into adulthood. This trauma manifests itself in many different ways. In this article, we will concentrate specifically on its manifestation in depression and existential unhappiness.
Depression as Learned Helplessness and Codependency
When we carry unresolved trauma that manifests itself as depression, it sometimes comes up as a reaction to something recent. This can be after somebody says or does something, or we ourselves do something, or when we encounter a problem, or even as a response to something we thought about.
[For more on this story by Darius Cikanavicius, go to https://blogs.psychcentral.com...d-trauma-depression/]
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