We’ve recently started sharing quotes from research and articles on mental health, then offering a question for the community to answer.
This week, we asked whether “Trauma is a good thing?” and the answers we got in the comments were illuminating.
You can read the comments here, but the too-long-didn’t-read of it all was “No, trauma isn’t a good thing. But good can come from it with the right support and coping mechanisms in place.”
Do you agree with that answer? and what do you think are the most important support structures and coping mechanisms that can allow us to acknowledge the bad and take the good from trauma?
Great discussion and as for coping mechanisms, they need to be healthy and give us more energy e.g. exercising with friends, talking etc.
If they are just mechanisms that numb the pain (drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, excess shopping etc) then the trauma and what happened wins, and we won’t get over it.
Great discussion and as for coping mechanisms, they need to be healthy and give us more energy e.g. exercising with friends, talking etc.
If they are just mechanisms that numb the pain (drugs, alcohol, food, gambling, excess shopping etc) then the trauma and what happened wins, and we won’t get over it.