Whether traumas happen earlier or later in life, feeling disconnected means more mental health symptoms. Humans need relationships and connections to survive and thrive. After all, we are social creatures. When one human victimizes another, that betrayal can leave survivors feeling alienated – disconnected and unmoored from themselves and other people. In turn, alienation hasContinue reading “Alienation and Trauma in Older Adults”
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Is There an Antidote to Alienation after Trauma?
A sexual assault survivor mentions feeling disconnected from people with whom she once felt close. Another explains that he feels like a stranger to himself. In interview after interview with my research team, survivors of interpersonal trauma have shared descriptions such as these. Some survived child abuse or adolescent dating violence; others, intimate partner abuse or sexual assault. Regardless of the type ofContinue reading “Is There an Antidote to Alienation after Trauma?”
Growing Despite Trauma
by Adi Rosenthal, 3rd Year Graduate Student, TSS Group Most trauma research focuses on the many negative impacts of trauma exposure, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, poorer physical health, and disruptions to social relationships. But psychologists have also studied positive outcomes after trauma, called posttraumatic growth. Think: new appreciation for life, strengthened relationships with others,Continue reading “Growing Despite Trauma”
Trauma Research Notes 