What are the different types of trauma?

Are there sort of different categorizations of trauma from like small to big or?

If we're using the definition that trauma is anything that overwhelms our coping mechanisms,

so there are changes in the brain when our coping mechanisms are overwhelmed and on the other side of that

our brains are different.

So that's the biological definition.

Then we would look at well, how do we get there, right?

And it breaks down into three categories then of acute, chronic, or vicarious.

So the acute trauma is how we've traditionally seen trauma.

So if you think about the idea that people were shell-shocked after World War I, right? That was acute trauma, combat trauma. So our

traditions of looking at trauma come from acute trauma and it's just more evident, you know,

after someone dies or there's an injury or there's a car accident like you know we can see

that okay gosh that could what makes some difference in the in the person like we can kind of get that and

sometimes we can see the change in the person from before and after.

So we have tended to equate trauma and post-trauma syndromes, like what happens to us after

those changes in the brain are now with us to acute trauma.

But again, it's not a soft definition.

It's based on do those changes in the brain happen in other ways?

And the answer to that is yes, that if a person is seen as less than for

example in a society for whatever reason across time or even within a household

a person is being abused in a household a child is being

neglected or a child is being emotionally or physically abused.

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