I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation on the trauma of aging, exploring symptoms

through a trauma-informed lens. I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipez. In today's presentation,

I'm going to define trauma, explore how loss is traumatic, and we've talked about this before,

but we're going to go over it for people

who haven't been with us for a while. Well, identify losses in each piece of life. And we talked

about that a lot last week. So we're not going to go quite as in-depth this time. But we're

really going to focus on identifying specifically the losses, not just the changes. We'll discuss how

this impacts people in each piece of their life and explore strategies to cope with the loss,

the existential anxiety, regret, resentment, grief, all those things.

So losses represent the elimination of something important.

When you think of a loss that you've experienced, you can generally think you lost a job,

you lost a friendship, you lost a friendship, you lost a pet.

Something that was important to you was taken away.

And generally, it wasn't something, it was against your wishes.

It wasn't something you wanted.

If I quit a job, I'm not going to say I lost my job.

I'm going to say, I quit.

So a loss represents the elimination of something important against our wishes.

And that leaves us feeling a little bit powerless, maybe just for a minute or maybe for a long period, depending on what the loss was, how important it was, and how

powerless we felt. Losses may prompt anticipatory anxiety or grief. And when I wrote that,

I was really thinking about as people age, as we start to lose this or that, my husband noted the other day

that my eyesight's gotten way worse over the past couple of years. And, you know, that was

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