Small trauma accumulated in everyday life, use it like this!

Trauma, in its original definition, is a symptom of experiencing a life-threatening or equivalent situation and feeling fear. The most typical cases are disasters, crimes, or repeated incidents that you have not personally experienced.

In this way, trauma seems to be a word that can only be applied to big events. On the other hand, there is also small trauma. Small trauma is a small life event that may seem small, but it continues to haunt the individual and haunt them.

What is Small Trauma?

Small trauma, which is the accumulated trauma of everyday life, may not seem like a big deal to talk about to others. But I'm sure more of you have thought about why you fall apart over such a small thing.

No matter how small it is, if we think of something painful every day, our brain will have no time to rest. If this continues, the memories of the past leave emotional scars that can manipulate the current emotional state, which is called small trauma.

Causes of Small Trauma

The experience of being estranged from a friend in school or the pain of being separated from my primary caregiver may seem like a light thing now, but it must have been a big deal at the time it happened to me. Even if the process of the incident in question is forgotten, it remains like a smell, and when faced with something that emits the same smell, it reminds the individual of what happened in the past, which makes the individual distressed.

How to use Small Trauma

If you look around, there are people who don't fluctuate too much no matter what. They are less sensitive to psychological antibodies created by previous experiences. In this way, you can turn small trauma into a psychological antibody. We just need to live our lives with the idea that it is the small pains that we experience every day that determine the quality of our lives.