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No, we have a definition of psychological trauma. Psychological trauma describes a complex set of degenerated capacities after experiencing a shock or perceived
by SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
No, we have a definition of psychological trauma. Psychological trauma describes a complex set of degenerated capacities after experiencing a shock or perceived threat particularly to one’s or loved one’s life. You can actually measure trauma by the degeneration of cognitive skills, adaptability, etc. I know we’re so blasé about trauma these days, so it sounds easy to dismiss it as woo. But consider again that maybe it’s only now that society is good enough that we can even conceive of measuring psychological damage like it isn’t normal. (It used to be normal for women to die of infection post childbirth… until it turns out this one weird guy with some germ theory woo washed his hands! And he was seeing this germ woo everywhere!)
- lostmsu 4y agoThere's a huge difference between mortality of childbirth and psychological trauma. The later does not seem to have significant enough research to support your point of view. I found a few papers, and they all seem to suffer from small samples sizes (under 100) and methodological issues (measure cognitive skills, and only use income as a confounder, rather than parent's cognitive skills, which are highly hereditary).
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y agoNot sure what studies you are finding, but adverse childhood experiences have studies with an n of over 10,000 people. We can directly correlate specific traumatic events to lifetime outcomes and mental illness.
- lostmsu 4y agoSo can you share one?