Childhood PTSD is, in its essence, an injury to our ability to connect with other people. You may have sensed the injury, but you likely considered it a personal failing. You saw other people easily connecting, and you thought your difficulties were because you were doing something wrong.
We now know that abuse and neglect in childhood can literally change your brain and restrict the normal cognitive processes that enable you to seek out and connect with good, appropriate people to bring into your life. What’s often lost is discernment – the intuition to interact with them successfully, and to detect red flags that tell you *not* to let them into your life. This can be compounded when your parents were unable or unavailable to teach social skills.
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