Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a strange event. When it happens, older people may recall their former selves. There is a history to compare it affects on them. Questions arise. The challenge is figuring out how to undo the change. When a baby experiences trauma it is difficult to recall events and acknowledge changes. They have always reacted or acted the same as far back as they remember, yet they acknowledge a divide in their personality is a chance to rewrite themselves as an individual.
Too many people attribute everything to child abuse or molestation. Other events impact a person's outlook on the world. Parents will talk about life threatening events. This can stimulate a feeling; however, what if an event is never discussed? What if a significant person in their life goes away?
Death and leaving are similar in the way they create grief. A loss is recognized. A child may not understand grief like an adult. Everything is measured by a feeling. The hand of a parent is replaced with a teddy bear. Life goes on fairly undisturbed. However, now they understand loss can be replaced by things, things that do not think and are unmoved by the outside world.
This creates distance from other people or resistant to the impact of loss. In life when one thing goes the challenge is finding another thing to replace it. As the person gets older individual people have a greater impact on their life, filling their position becomes more difficult. Yet the principle feeling remains. Everything is replaceable. This attitude creates problems, because people are unique and often irreplaceable. Even after knowing this, they continue to avoid commitment and devalue themselves and others.
We always hope to find these missing parts of life through hypnosis or meditation. We all want to feel and be the same. Knowing there is something missing doesn't counteract the problem. Perhaps one day the mind realizes the event and draws upon the initial emotions. Then they can address the issue and question it rationally. However, there is no point to realizing how they were before the event. They were an infant and functionally unaware of their actions. It is better to evaluate values and realize they are who they are, making a conscious choice to be a wonderful person. Also dismissing an incident as the reason they became what they are now.
Even if deeply entwined with perspectives on life, it is difficult to gain too much from a simple emotion. At best life goes on and they stop themselves before proceeding with attempting to relive the situation or causing harms to others as a means of control. Whether a childhood trauma like falling through the ice or recognizing an important person is missing, it isn't so much the traumatic experience as not knowing how to respond.
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