Childhood emotional traumas can persist until adulthood. We must cleanse from all these emotions to manage them healthily and fully.
An occurrence that produces fragility, helplessness, and pain and changes a person's psychological life is called psychological trauma.
Trauma can occur in childhood or adulthood and vary in intensity and nature. Check out some:
Traumatic occurrence that endangers individual safety or survival. This type of incident involves a life-threatening situation.
Physical and psychological abuse can undermine one's self-esteem and confidence in the outer world, even if it doesn't threaten survival.
Micro-trauma: A sequence of little traumas or stressful experiences can generate the same effects as a catastrophic incident.
Emotional trauma: Everyone experiences emotional trauma, which can heal itself or leave deep scars. In all circumstances, trauma must be processed and overcome, not repressed.
Childhood trauma and emotional traumas shape adult emotions. To understand how they work, imagine a plant mistreated when it germinates: the consequences will last throughout its life on its leaves and roots.
About 78% of children under 5 have experienced trauma, and 20% of children under 6 are in therapy for abuse, abandonment, or loss of parents.
In children and adults, significant trauma can cause post-traumatic stress disorder, which can include memory loss, relational issues, skewed reality, and emotional issues.
Childhood trauma has a strong impact on the construction of identity, which includes self-awareness, self-esteem, behaviour, and character, as well as the ability to live healthy and integrated emotional experiences and feel secure and complete. Any disruption of this process can have major effects on various elements of our lives.
The previous paragraphs showed some examples of childhood trauma, but in this section, we will analyse some with different nuances that may not have serious consequences but can still leave a negative mark on our lives that we may want to recognise and overcome!
This sort of childhood trauma occurs when the mother or carer cannot or will not protect the child from their concerns or leaves the family or home. These are children who are left alone for lengthy periods of time, raised by others, or whose parents for personal reasons do not want to meet their needs for company and attention. Children who were abandoned are insecure and develop emotional reliance out of dread of being abandoned again.
Culture accepts slaps and spanking as acceptable child-rearing violence. These are mild compared to more serious violence. Numerous studies have proven that any sort of child abuse, even slight, is unacceptable. Violence teaches children to resolve issues with violence, not to handle their anger and to follow the law of the strongest in family disputes. Childhood traumas and emotional wounds affect adults and their environments, creating violent men and women.
Because they were born at the wrong time, neglected, or like one of the parents, some parents reject their offspring.