TW, “THE” trauma? Anyone else like us?

Yes, the way some people can be hypnotized and others cannot. Some people may be unable to dissociate and so would deal with abuse in a different manner.

First thing we learn about trauma as a psych (at least at my university) is that the type of abuse didn't count to know if the child will be traumatized. What count it's how the child feel about the event and if he has the opportunity to express and understand those feelings.

Having intense fear, stress, etc. and not be allowed to express it or to don't have an adult who explain the situation and those feelings to the child, that's way enough to create trauma.
Now if it happen daily, or if the child doesn't understand what's going on at all and thinks their parents could kill them (like we thought about my father), I thinks it's enough to creat at least OSDD.

Now why every traumatized child doesn't have DID/OSDD ? Because there's not just trauma who count in the equation. There's also genetic, being prone to dissociation, the personnality of the child, etc.

I think trauma isn't an event, it's a reaction in a person. So there is no question about what kind of events can or cannot traumatize someone, if someone is having trauma symptoms, then it was traumatizing. Simple as that. There are no other measurements than the outcome.

Dude, 15