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Trauma comes from this Greek word for
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And we can understand a lot about the
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nature of trauma if we just understand
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how a wound behaves. [music]
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it's important to say that trauma is not
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what happens to [music] us.
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It's not the event. It's the wound that
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we sustain as a result [music] of the
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So, surprising as this may seem, the
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trauma is not the sexual [music] abuse.
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The trauma is not the death of your
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parent. The trauma is not the
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violence in your [music] family. The
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trauma is not the tsunami,
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the war. The trauma is what happens
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inside you [music] as a result of what
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happened to you from the outside. If you
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take that wound a metaphor or reality,
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what [music] is the nature of a wound?
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Well, one aspect of a wound is that as
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long as it's open and sore, it's [music]
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raw and tender, and every time you touch
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it, it hurts. And you don't have to
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touch it with great force, you just
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[music] lightly touch it and it hurts.
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These wounds, [snorts] these traumatic
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wounds, when somebody [music] touches
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it's like we're being
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wounded all over again. And this is
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where we get triggered. So, if you look
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at again the meaning of the word trigger
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>> the context from which the this word,
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"I'm being triggered,"
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arises. The [music] trigger is obviously
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a part of a mechanism of a part of a
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weapon. How big a part of the weapon is
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For the trigger to be able to work,
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there has to be a huge weapon there.
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There has to be explosive charge. There
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ammunition. [music] Trauma comes from
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this Greek word for wounding.
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And we can understand a lot about the
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nature [music] of trauma if we just
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understand how a wound behaves. Now,
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it's important to [music] say that
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trauma is not what happens to us.
