Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world – “Life is good, ” “I’m safe, ” “People are kind, ” “I can trust others, ” “The future is likely to be good” – and replaces them with feelings like “The world is dangerous, ” “I can’t win, ” “I can’t trust other people, ” or “There’s no hope. Mark Goulston
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