Hidden Trauma Vs Visible Trauma

When we talk about trauma, it’s important to understand that, there is hidden trauma. Hidden trauma can show up in the form of emotional abuse, psychological control manipulation ego-driven actions and people are often defensive when they’re questioned if they’re okay, they don’t want to talk about what’s going on perhaps in their home or different situations.

Physical trauma is obviously a lot easier to spot. We see violence people can be limiting somebody’s movement, not letting them out of a doorway and not letting them out of the car positions of superiority. How many of you remember the old cartoons of the boss sitting in the chair that’s super tall and then the employee coming in sitting in a really low chair, well that kind of stuff needs to go. So, understanding that we need to be equal in our communication and not be in positions of superiority. When we’re speaking with people work conditions assault and then visible trauma crutches bruises wounds that are inconsistent with their story. Somebody tells you something and it just doesn’t add up, that gut check in you says you know something about this just does not add up.

So, these three types of traumas and the way a trauma shows up. It’s important to understand because sometimes trauma is not visible. Sometimes we just don’t see it because there are covert ways that people are emotionally psychologically abused at home and I’m also going to speak as a man that there are men who are also emotionally and psychologically abused from women in life and vice versa for women by men which is the more common thing that people are aware of but we also need to understand men do go through things too in our society and the narrative is usually not in their favor. So, a lot of guys don’t know that they can call the domestic abuse hotline and talk to somebody and express what it is that they’re feeling and women can also do that I just share this from a man’s perspective as well because I think. It’s very important that some of these hidden things that are often not talked about by men in our society.