The Importance of Experience in Trauma

There's kind of this trauma triangle if you will there's three E's. You've got the eventYou've got the experience of the event and then you've got the effects of the event. And so some people can experience a traumatic event and not be traumatized by it. Other people can experience an event and have it be traumatizing. The answer is their experience of that event. So experience really matters. It enables somebody to metabolize the traumatic event in a way that the that it doesn't have to be have traumatic effects on them over time.