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What is post-traumatic growth? 💪 Christopher Germer, PhD at the Post-Traumatic Growth Global Summit

1 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Christopher Germer distinguishes trauma recovery from post-traumatic growth. Most people bounce back without PTSD, but some face a dark night of the soul where core beliefs shatter. Working through that struggle can lead to growth: becoming wiser or a better person, though not grateful for the trauma itself.

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The interesting thing is actually the vast majority of people who experience trauma do bounce back fairly quickly. They don't develop post traumatic stress disorder. But then there's another way of thinking about this more recently, which is post traumatic growth. And this actually pertains to people who don't bounce back right away and actually go through the dark night of the soul, you know, big struggles, their core beliefs about life get, you know, mangled by the trauma, and they just kind of work with it and then at some point can even say, you know, they don't ever say, you know, I'm glad I had this trauma, but they say I learned something from it I might never have learned. In other words, I've become a better person or a wiser person. So and that's post traumatic growth. And that's a special kind of coping because it's hard won, you know.