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The Reality of Childhood Trauma | Gabby Bernstein

3 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Dara Ladjevardian discusses how children are exposed early to severe emotional burdens, such as having parents with weak attachment, sexual abuse, bullying, and verbal humiliation by teachers. She emphasizes that these extreme experiences overwhelm a child's developing brain, which lacks the cognitive resources and capacity to process such disturbances. Moreover, the absence of supportive caregivers further impedes the child's ability to make sense of and recover from these traumas, highlighting a critical gap in early emotional development and mental health support.

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From a very young age, we start to experience the burdens of the world, a parent that doesn't have a strong attachment. In the case for you and myself, having sexual abuse as children. So sometimes it could be extreme traumas like that, or it could be something along the lines of being bullied in the classroom or being told that you're stupid by your teacher. These moments in time are so extreme. for our child brains to process. Yes. We don't have the resources, we don't have the brain capacity, and oftentimes we don't have the parents or caregivers to help us process these extreme disturbances.