Short talk (YouTube video) by Amber Hollingsworth explaining that coping mechanisms developed in early childhood become ingrained and can persist into adulthood; these mechanisms are not always indicators of severe trauma but are ways people learned to handle early-life situations.
We've all had difficult experiences that shape us in good ways and in not so good ways. So just because you have some of these coping mechanisms doesn't necessarily mean something super duper horrible happened to you. It can just mean it's the ways that you developed to deal with situations that came up in your early childhood. And the reason why most of this comes from childhood is because most of these coping mechanisms are very sort of ingrained. They're hardwired. If you think back, it's probably something that you've struggled with for most of your life that you can remember.
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