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5 Trauma Personalities Or…
I Do Instead Of Feeling
My apologies but this might be a deeper post today. Since my sister and I started our separate therapies to deal with our childhood trauma, we’ve bee watching a lot of mental health videos on YouTube. Naturally, we send each other interesting videos and the one she sent me yesterday was a doozy! It’s on Patrick Teahan’s channel, he’s a clinical social worker who has dealt with his own trauma too. In this video how discusses childhood trauma causes people to develop alternate trauma personalities to cope and while doing so they lose their original one.
That might sound weird but I promise it makes sense when you watch the video. I can almost guarantee you’ll be picking out and thinking “omg! That’s so-and-so!” Or maybe even yourself. It certainly was for me. The first personality mentioned is “The Doer” and it is 100% me. I always knew I liked to have a plan, to know what I wanted to do, how to achieve it and to be seen as intelligent. What I didn’t realise what that it allowed me to cut myself off from my emotions.
#Confused
Honestly, I’ve always thought of myself as an emotional person and that I was very good at understanding and feeling my emotions. Now I suspect that I am very good at talking about my emotions and feeling them a bit. However, the bits related to my trauma, the true pain and anger and hurt. I think they’re locked away with many of my memories about that tme.
