One of the the most common, painful adult manifestations of Childhood PTSD is difficulty perceiving reality accurately, especially around the meaning of interactions we have with other people. We have trouble sometimes predicting that a choice is risky, or that a person we meet is unreliable, or whether our own sense of discomfort is an appropriate response.
This is the sixth article and video in my resilience series, focusing on eight obstacles to healing from childhood trauma, and the strengths we need to overcome them. The topic today is confusion.
Part of the problem lies in difficulties processing what’s happening around us, which can be caused by trauma, and which hinders our capacity to respond in a commonsense way. Our confusion also arises from conditioning we learned as kids to second guess what was clearly happening in front of us -- or to us.
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