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Silent Scars: Understanding Emotional Harm In Children
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What happens when a child learns that their feelings don’t count? We trace the quiet pathways of emotional harm—those repeated moments of invalidation and reality-bending that never leave a bruise but can remake a child’s inner world. Drawing from our clinical work, we unpack how misattunement erodes trust in one’s own perceptions, why shame (not guilt) drives withdrawal, and how kids become hypervigilant, overadaptive, or emotionally shut down when their nervous systems adapt to chronic misreading at home.
We move from subtle household stress to high-conflict dynamics…
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