Trauma happens in various ways and can negatively impact your mental health, physical body, emotions, social life, and spiritual well being. It affects people regardless of age, nationality, gender, race, socioeconomic status or any other demographic. It is said that you can’t change what you don’t acknowledge, so knowing the various types of trauma can help you reflect on whether it may be negatively impacting your life. Here are 8 common types of trauma.
8 COMMON TYPES OF TRAUMA
- Intergenerational trauma – Trauma that is passed on through the generations of a family.
- Attachment trauma – Disruption of attachment bond between baby and caregiver. This could be from neglect, abuse, a lack of connection, response, or affection towards the baby.
- Chronic trauma – Various events of trauma over extended periods of time.
- Complex trauma – Multiple traumatic events and exposure to trauma in your family system.
- Vicarious trauma – Exposed to family members, friends, partner who are being traumatized.
- Racial trauma – Race-based traumatic stress is the mental and emotional impact and injury caused by racial bias, microaggressions, discrimination, and hate crimes either in-person or witnessed vicariously happening to your racial group.
- Collective trauma (the pandemic, having a friend or family member commit suicide) – Traumatic experiences that affect whole groups of people, and communities.
- Acute trauma – Single traumatic event.
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