Tag: #trauma
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Invalidating Your Own or Someone Else’s Trauma: Do not do it
Before we talk about invalidating trauma, let us talk a bit about what trauma is. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) states that trauma is an event or circumstance that results in physical harm, emotional harm and/or life threatening harm that can negatively impact mental, physical, emotional health and social and spiritual…
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What impact does trauma have on us? How did Will Smith’s childhood trauma impact him?
This is an interesting article that illuminates why Will Smith might have responded the way he did when Chris Rock told a joke about his wife. The article reports that this might have been due to the childhood trauma that Will Smith experienced. When I witnessed “the slap” I thought about the trauma that he…
