@CurziRose Here's my attempt to precisely specify a specific important type of trauma. Generally I think that if a word isn't quite right it's because the concept isn't quite right, or because there is a compulsion to get it wrong on purpose. benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-trauma-cou…
@CurziRose The exact term for this type of trauma might be "unjust world hypothesis" or "authoritarian submission": edge.org/response-detai…
@CurziRose Once we see the natural category "unjust world hypothesis," it's easy to see another feature within the trauma cluster: "grievance."
@CurziRose In a just society, when someone transgresses against another, this is not a psychiatric event, but instead a tort or a crime.
@CurziRose If you discover that you do not have recourse, not even the recourse of making your grievance known, then your lived experience cannot be understood, and your situation cannot be navigated, without the unjust world hypothesis. This is "complex" trauma.
@CurziRose Separately, there are simple triggered emergency response behaviors - like a former soldier diving for cover in response to fireworks.
@CurziRose Some relationships between these:
1 Unjust world hypothesis is not survivable on its own, so if it's not integrated into an explicit worldview, it emerges as a triggered response to cues that your context demands injustice.
1 Unjust world hypothesis is not survivable on its own, so if it's not integrated into an explicit worldview, it emerges as a triggered response to cues that your context demands injustice.
@CurziRose 2 Betrayal blindness, an important component of adaptation to injustice, necessarily cannot be conscious and explicit, so it has to be a triggered behavior.
@CurziRose 3 In the modern world most emergencies that demand a rapid stereotyped response come from injustice, not apolitical threats like lions or tornadoes.
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