Thread by @giorgiobee

The amount of misinformation in circulation about trauma is staggering.

People with no clue about research are emboldened to tell me I am "wrong" Ignorant" and that "my research is very bad" because I point out that trauma is not (and cannot be) stored in the body.

I don't debate on twitter--not conducive to thoughtful commentary. But owning to the many responses, I will give it a go. I may offend some people-- apologies in advance. But here a few points in response (#1)

1) Events are not traumatic, they are potentially traumatic
2) THese events are painful but most people are not traumatized by them
3) when people are traumatized, its horrible, and the body does become dysregulated (2 of ?

4) long-term bodily changes do occur, but in response to very serious, prolonged adversity
5) long-term bodily changes are also influenced/caused by others things, like poverty, neglect, chronic danger
6) in a word, its complicated (3 of ?

7) The commonly thrown around idea, like the Body keeps the score, assumed the body records/remembers trauma that people are largely unaware of
8) I can't think of any mechanism that would allow that to happen (4 of ?

9) people who've been traumatized severely enough to have lasting bodily change definately know they've suffered trauma--its not something you forget (5 of ?

10) people talk about the emotion centers or the primitive bodily center of the brain that stores the trauma
11) but a "trauma" is experienced in episodic, narrative form. Brain structures that regulate bodily function do not store narrative info (6 of ?

I've lost track of which reply I am on, but thats enough for me.. Thank you all for thinking about this together. and now I'll go back to work