The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
To make the definition relevant, I think we have to look at trauma as not anything negative that happens to us, right? But something that overwhelms our coping skills, then leaves us different as we move forward. So it changes the way that our brains function, right? And then that changes evident in us as we move forward through life.
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So I think anchoring it to something that rises to the magnitude of overwhelming our coping skills and changing us like then at least I define it that way and I can communicate that to you and we can understand what we're talking about.
trauma is anything that pushes our coping skills to and beyond their limits and then results in a set of feelings inside that could be acute Terror or it could be for example a chronic sense of denigration right but it creates these feelings inside that then change the the the functioning of our brain the communication within our brain among the various parts right in a way that that shifts the lens through which we see ourselves and the world around us