“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event. Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening. Trauma is not the event itself!” TraumaTrauma TherapyTraumatizationTraumatizing Book:Traumatization and Its Aftermath Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“Traumatic is whatever action, event, or circumstance has the potential to jeopardize one's life or physical/mental/social unity. An appraisal that depends on the subjectivity of each one of us.” Mental HealthTraumaMental Health QuotesTraumaticTrauma QuotesTraumatizing Book:Traumatization and Its Aftermath Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“An event only becomes 'traumatizing' at a specific point: when we are personally affected by it—whether in actuality or perception.” Mental HealthTraumaMental Health QuotesTraumaticTrauma QuotesTraumatizing Book:Traumatization and Its Aftermath Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath
“It's the person's subjective perception of danger that determines whether an incident is traumatizing or not.” Mental HealthTraumaMental Health QuotesTraumaticTrauma QuotesTraumatizing Book:Traumatization and Its Aftermath Source: Traumatization and Its Aftermath