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When You Question Whether Your Trauma Is Valid

My therapist says I have complex trauma but I had a roof over my head and food on the table so I feel like I am making everything up and being dramatic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of visible wounds does not negate the reality of developmental and relational injury.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complex trauma — C-PTSD?”

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