Understanding how trauma damages our world view

Trauma can make the world seem like a very hostile and threatening place.  If our life is full of experiences where we were not comforted, nor supported or understood in the midst of significant trauma (and much trauma results from this happening to us all the time and in many different ways when we are young), we end up existing in a painful place with our brain and nervous system severely overloaded and in fact changed fundamentally through trauma.

We loose a sense of basic trustin the world and in other human beings which makes it very hard for us to reach out and connect.  When we meet further misunderstanding and lack of empathy our trauma is compounded and we cannot heal.  In serious cases we become immobilised by trauma as one of the consequences of trauma is the response of freeze in which we “play dead”, hold our breath, keep…