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The Legacy of Trauma and Addiction Pt.2
As we will see, trauma changes a person's personality. It's characterized by:
* A loss of capacity to use community support.
* Chronic recurrent depression with feelings of despair.
* Emotional anesthesia or blocked ability to react affectively.
* Alexithymia, or inability to recognize and make use of emotional reactions.
The list of secondary reactions to psychological trauma includes emotional construction, sensational-seeking reenactment, and drug and alcohol abuse. This affects children and adults alike, and if not dealt with, our children will carry these traumas and behaviors into…
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