Episode 198: Gabor Maté - Renowned Addiction Expert, Bestselling Author, and Speaker
Habits and Hustle
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Is the Word Trauma Overused?
The word trauma isn't overused because well, isn't everybody traumatized to some level like nobody? Let's define that. Traumas get imprinted in our nervous system and as long as we don't resolve them and heal them, they keep controlling our behaviors. And very often, human beings in this culture or any culture are like topics in the string and those strings are pulled by the unconscious. We think we're free, but actually we are still controlled by unconscious dynamics that we're not even aware of. So what is trauma? It comes from a record for wounding or a wound or trauma is a psychological wound that you endure in childhood that has ongoing effects.
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