• jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Seems like there’s one or more categories missing here… how does the Mister Rogers “look for the helpers” phrase fit in? The people who, in the face of trauma, seek to assist rather than avoid?

    All four of these categories are negative, I don’t see any positive response to trauma.

    • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, a lot of these “cool guides” are just some BS that someone on reddit came up with.

    • bam13302@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I think the intent is to show untrained instinctual responses, not learned responses, I’m not sure though some of this chart I find odd, still parsing it to figure out what

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Trauma is negative by definition. It isn’t just a bad thing that you experience, it is an injury you receive as a consequence. Maybe you can find positive aspects of breaking a leg – I get to work on my novel! – but the injury is purely negative.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Yes. The injury is the trauma. It is negative. This post is about trauma. How we react to that trauma is a different thing. It can be positive or negative towards the goal of healing the trauma. But that’s not what this post is about. These are the ways that psychological injury manifest, not how people react to those injuries.

  • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Obviously not a “pick one” kind of situation. Everyone I know does a little of all of these categories, and lots of two or three.

  • guillem@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I swear a new F word gets added to that list every time I see it.

    So far I’ve seen friend, flock, flop, flail, funster, fib…

  • Ansis100@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’m going to have anger outbursts and explosive behaviour because of the damn vertical text spacing in this

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Ok so when I’m stressed I’m a workaholic hyperactive overwhelmed people pleaser who will slam doors, self harm, get numb, and shut down.

    Not even kidding.

    Really though I think it goes like this as I progress from stressed out to the breaking point. I think my M.O. is Fawn > Flight > Freeze > Fight. When I’m pushed to a certain point I explode in anger, usually directed at inanimate objects and self. I’ve been living in Fawn for several years now