How Trauma Changes Your Thinking

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I talked in a previous video about how trauma affects how you store memories. Traumatic experiences can also affect how you perceive things and cause you to have what we call cognitive distortions. 

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These distortions are especially present in people who develop post-traumatic stress disorder from an event, but you don’t need to have that diagnosis for your thinking to be skewed from a traumatic experience or experiences. This video looks at four ways trauma can change your thinking.

Reference

  • Ames, D. L., & Fiske, S. T. (2013). Intentional harms are worse, even when they’re not. Psychological science, 24(9), 1755–1762.

Here’s a Trauma Journaling worksheet

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