Relational Trauma.
Relational trauma is most likely to hapoen in our primary relationships with either parents, caregivers, guardians or those with authority and those with great control over us.
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When children experience traumas and related stress, it is not necessary that the event itself becomes the problem.
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If a child has securely attached, attuned, loving, consistent caregivers who can support them in facilitating the stress, organizing and making sense of it, the child can more or less move through trauma or stressor functionally.
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On the other hand when the caregiving adult fails to support the child in managing, healing or recovering from it, a child will most likely develop maladaptive & compensatory responses to help themselves.
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Maladaptive responses are numerous and varied but if left unaddressed and untreated, they can lead the child to become an adult who has ineffective beliefs and behaviors about themselves, others and the world.
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As challenging as it can be to recover from a complex childhood relational trauma, I believe it to be the most worthwhile journeys anyone could make, in essence it's a journey to reclaim your authentic self.
Dr Anshul Mahajan
Consultant Psychiatrist