Why people who develop post traumatic stress end up fragmented and devastated - Jordan Peterson

Speaker: Jordan Peterson Thanks for watching!
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[gachacaspa]

Fragmented and devastated :/ truth in this. Still healing. And naivety was a big part in that.

[A-wl]

Very true. My trauma happened consistently till I was 10 so I learned very early about the illusions of this world, especially safety. I realized that most people are capable of great evil, including me, and I NEVER want to give into that impulse. I have always been a sensitive person and PTSD increased that, I feel other living being's pain and I can't hurt them unless it's self-defense. I felt shattered after the trauma, I saw the chaos in the world and I was a broken person till I was 34. Once I got effective therapy, I put all my shattered pieces together, I reclaimed myself and my PTSD became my super power. Now I see the world as it is and myself as I am. I learned from my trauma that the way I honor the innocent child I was is by never perpetuating the evil I experienced, standing up for vulnerable living beings, living fully, and most importantly being content and happy.

[josephdestaubin]

Humans are definitely not harmless; we can seriously f*** things up with fairly little effort.

[mojavegreen]

At the time in my life where I was defeated, broken and “harmless” I seriously damaged my daughter. Finally understand my part in her PTSD.

[prosfrog]

Very good point. Thinking harmless is a a state which I can see now allows you to be reckless in your actions

[HaythamTrueheartH]

Thank you sir Jordan for explaining. Your heart and compassion is beautiful.

[kco]

It's not something bad. It's malevolent people that they experience

[miriaml.]

I've never thought of PTSD like this but it makes a lot of sense. This already helped me and I will pass this along.

[charlesfoster]

AMAZING THAT THESE TWO THINGS ARE CORRELATED!

[megrafferty]

Trauma can happen so fast & having people around who will share there wisdom on being in stressful situations can help me understand how to cope .

[demarcusfaulkner]

I have PTSD from something that happened in my childhood. So yes I would say being naive had something to do with it.

[pragyakumar]

I was naiive and had PTSD most likely, but i never thought i was harmless to others.. just turned it towards me usually

[draegiles]

This is a general statement. I was a strong, intelligent woman who had 3 children, had a narcissistic husband. Through hardships, received my college degree, got my dream job, and bought a home, but had a narcissistic boss, no support and an ill child. I lasted a long time before getting PTSD. A person can become weak and tired of fighting.

[McGuire]

He ABSOLUTELY nailed it, as always. Yes, yes, and YES! So true about being very naieve! That was ME!
But NOT ANYMORE.
I took his advice and found the MONSTER that lives in us all, but I was so upset that EVIL is what forced me to do didn't think it was anything to celebrate, going from "nice" to "MONSTER, " but it IS! I realized I can resume the nice person nature and stay there until... .
Someone makes the stupid mistake of judging my KINDNESS, as WEAKNESS.
Bc THAT is the moment I get to shatter their beliefs about what they were so sure they knew about judging a book by its cover. 😁SURPRISE!
Funny thing.... they only do it ONCE now. So I finally got it right! Thank u Dr Peterson...
U SAVED MY LIFE when u gave me permission to go deep and get good and acquainted with my shadow.
Much Love to u. I only wish u were my dad.

[transcendence]

I have fully recovered from PTSD and I have come to the realization that my naivety was because of my innocence. And because of that I seen others as innocent. But we are all a villain in someone else's story. None of us are innocent and all are of us innocent.

[transcendence]

When we can monitor our words and actions then we can change. And choose better for ourselves.

[WILLIAMTHOMASFARRELL]

He's right. Conditioning is wisdom

[svietka]

more often than not we cannot figure out range of our capabilities until we are put in various situations that demand from us to act and think in a way we have not encountered before.
and exactly for the reason of not being able to figure out that range is why soldiers get PTSD and why ordinary somewhat average people jump in the water to save a stranger

[godhg]

I am harmless because I never had TPSD. Amazing speech

[transcendence]

We know not what we do until our eyes are open to this fact. Then we can monitor our words and actions.