Is it a Big T Trauma or a Little T Trauma?

It doesn’t matter if there was a big thing that happened to you in your life that was traumatic or even a small thing, if it affects you, it affects you! You shouldn’t feel guilty if it appears to be ‘so small’ yet it was traumatizing to you. Pain is relative and subjective to each individual.    What is trauma exactly? This is a person’s emotional reaction to an upsetting experience and the traumatic event can be highly distressing. At times, it can completely max out a person’s stress ability to the point where it takes a physical, emotional, and mental toll on that person. If this goes untreated or gets suppressed, it can turn into PTSD, which is your body’s way of coping with the dangers of the unknown.     Many times, people will discount little traumas as ‘no big deal’. There are actually a lot of different traumas out there. There’s acute trauma (big T trauma), chronic trauma (small T trauma), and complex trauma (small T trauma). Big T traumas are taken on as these very alarming events that happened to you, but they’ve happened to you only once and it was frightening or very jarring. This can be like a car accident or a sudden, but violent death in your family.    Small T traumas can have ripple effects that are often ignored. For example, when you're coming onto the dating scene after a dirorce, your little T traumas will trigger you as you try to prevent the same mistakes from happening + navigating the unknown of being hurt again. The world becomes a very scary place and your little T traumas are almost in overdrive trying to protect you!    Continue Your Growth Journey: Kaminiwood.com