Trauma is negative by definition. It isn’t just a bad thing that you experience, it is an injury you receive as a consequence. Maybe you can find positive aspects of breaking a leg – I get to work on my novel! – but the injury is purely negative.
Yes. The injury is the trauma. It is negative. This post is about trauma. How we react to that trauma is a different thing. It can be positive or negative towards the goal of healing the trauma. But that’s not what this post is about. These are the ways that psychological injury manifest, not how people react to those injuries.
Trauma is negative by definition. It isn’t just a bad thing that you experience, it is an injury you receive as a consequence. Maybe you can find positive aspects of breaking a leg – I get to work on my novel! – but the injury is purely negative.
The injury is negative, how we react to it doesn’t have to be. ;)
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Yes. The injury is the trauma. It is negative. This post is about trauma. How we react to that trauma is a different thing. It can be positive or negative towards the goal of healing the trauma. But that’s not what this post is about. These are the ways that psychological injury manifest, not how people react to those injuries.
Socks with sandals is certainly traumatic.
Oh, not a sock. That’s a giant bandage. Sandal is the only thing that fits over it. :(