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Key takeaways from Trauma and How to Overcome It

Psychological trauma can be defined as a negative event so overwhelming that we cannot properly understand, process or move on from it – but, and this is the devilish aspect to it, nor can we properly… Open at source

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The leading symptom of having been traumatised is fear. Traumatised people are, above anything else, scared.
A leading consequence of trauma is to have no active memory of what was traumatic – and therefore no sense of how distorted one’s picture of reality actually now is.
As the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott observed: ‘The catastrophe the traumatised fear will happen has already happened’.
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