This is what Trauma Really Is - Gabor Mate

#shorts #gabormate @JoePolish #trauma #brainhealth

[donnachavous]

This is so insightful! Thank you for this valuable information.

[VenusAurora-ux]

The way you just took these words outta my heart

[remember]

I recently reconnected with my sister after 25 years and it took 2 1/2 years of events and conversation to address all the triggers from the past. She didn't have a problem, but now I'm free to live my life unhindered by all those issues. 👍

[ducklover]

Dr. Mate', you are amazing sir. It took about 43 years to show up, and I thought I was going crazy. I was forced to slow down, and it caught me. I couldn't figure out what was going on. I really felt like I was losing my mind. I broke down and called a therapist, and the local state funded mental health facility. I never thought I'd do either. That's how far down I was. I got on some meds, found out that I had compound trauma, and started researching online. Id never heard of it before. When I ran across Dr. Mate', he was so amazing. He totally gets it, and knows from experience. It all started when my mom was pregnant at 15 in 1976. She didn't tell her parents until 8 months, for fear she would be forced to have an abortion. She was a nervous wreck the whole pregnancy. Apparently, that, and all the other BS has traumatized me, and I didn't know. I didn't even realize, until I started researching, that it starts in childhood. I always thought my childhood was good. My mom's parents raised me, and I never wanted for anything. Then I learned that happiness isn't about a roof over your head, food to eat, clothes to wear....I started looking back and really thinking about it, and realized I was really depressed, and cried all the time. I didn't see my mom very much, bc of the issue with her wanting me, and her parents said no...I didn't meet my real dad till I was 16. There's alot of things I have questions about, but why would any ody think it's ok for a child to not know her dad, or any of his family...I don't have the relationships with my siblings like I should. My great grandpa always wanted to meet me, but he passed away before my mom forced me to go meet my grandparents. Sorry I'm rambling, lol it happens sometimes. My therapist told me he didn't know if he should believe everything I was telling him or not. I said who could make this shit show up?!? 🤷🏻‍♀️. Sorry again for rambling. But Dr. Mate' makes me feel kinda normal. I was so far down, when I called my therapist for the very first time, just to see about making an appt, he said he was gonna put me at the top of his waiting list bc I needed somebody now, not later. He even got me a pro Bono spot. I said man, how messed up do u have to be, for a therapist to offer to see u for free for one hour a week, and then tell u it could take a couple years of therapy. ☹️ I'm just thankful that he is seeing me at all. I got very lucky when I called him that day. Good luck everybody, hang in there, and remember, you can't quit. Keep on keeping on the best way u can.

[moonectar]

One of the best shorts I've heard. Wonderful insight. ❤

[AmyAitMahdi]

I ended going into dissociation. I believe getting spiritually attacked from Avakin life sent me into ptsd. It brought into effect my childhood trauma which was sexual trauma. From there I was stuck in the mind of a child. But the damage was done. By sexually assaulting me in my mid life it brought my childhood trauma to the forefront. By being a chosen one and an older woman at that. I ended up being linked to a family who manipulated me to the point that I begged the community for help, I went through my spiritual journey but in the end I accepted what they did to me and life will take care of the rest.

[marciabradley]

My roommate woke me up screaming about paper in the kitchen sink. The experience reignited the times my mother would scream in the middle of the night after arriving home from work. Nobody moved. We all were paralyzed with fear. This all happened several weeks ago and today I could say I am suffering from an injury to my nervous system. Sure there’s always an accusation of trauma, but now I know it’s a fresh injury.

[Elmirei]

If more and more people would realise it

[charlottajern]

Mister Gabor.
Im a 61-year old Lady, or...I dont feel old I still feel like a young girl?
My father touched me when I was eleven, my chest start to grow
I be frozen it was in the backseat of our car and my mother drive. I dont know if she understood what what happened. I go out from that car xnd feel everything is change, I must close my door.
The morning after I had to eat breakfast with him and I do beacuse if you dont you dont get food. But he didn't show nothing!
I felt stuck from this and juse me Jody wrong with man after that. I think it is from that. Always want to get everything and don't take nothing back.
Place I'm old can I get help!!

[SMMore-bfyi]

Yes all of the above, true, the amount of scar tissue on the planet right now is a very large collective wound… think embarking on this journey of the designer type lifestyle created for us & still in design, we can’t really know the long term upshot to the faculties of the mind

[carolineowens]

I used to really admire this Doctor but have list all RESPECT and admiration for him.. maybe originally he wanted to help people but now teaming up with Horrid Henry he is only interested in making money. He has been so disrespectful to the British RF. Disgusted with him

[lindareasonjernigan]

That man looks like he climbed out of he'll.

[tedda]

What a cop out 😏. Everyone carries trauma. To then use that excuse to 💩 over people is pathetic.