Three Ways You Might Experience Trauma

You have experienced something that has negatively impacted your well-being. Maybe it was a one-time experience or maybe it has been recurrent, but the consequences have been long-lasting. Maybe the experience feels too big for you to overcome or maybe you feel it’s too small to be deserving of help, but if you have been negatively impacted, you should know that you can always ask for help.

When most people think of trauma, they think of significant and uncommon experiences: things like rape, a car accident, or domestic violence. And yes, those experiences are extremely traumatic, but trauma can occur in other less obvious ways as well. You can experience trauma from breakups, experiencing the loss of a loved one, inequality or exposure to violence.