Oh hey it me! I was emotional neglected and abused by a parent and series of teachers from 5 onwards along with a host of other things I won’t go into. As soon as I had managed to form a sense of self outside of the family unit (believe I was 19), I sought help and was diagnosed with c-PTSD along with AuDHD the former they suspect developed around 7-9. I’ve been in some form of therapy ever since (I’m 29 now) and likely will need some kind of therapy my whole life. My brain was irrevocably damaged because of the abuse I suffered as a child, and while I have learned how to manage better it was a real blow to find that out at 19. Even with all the therapy I received, it took me a long time to recognise the child abuse for what it was, because when that’s all you’ve known, it doesn’t register as such.
Hi! As a current Trainee, I just wanted to say how useful I've found your content, both in the lead up to getting onto the Doctorate, but also now I'm here as well. This video was also invaluable for me in preparing for delivering a teaching session on the impact of trauma within my CAMHS placement, so thank you so much for this. You're an inspiration to me, and I wish you all the best :)
This was really well explained! I was consistently physically and emotionally abused by my dad in my childhood, and it left me barely able to function as an adult. I have Complex PTSD, depression, anxiety and more as a result of all that childhoid trauma. At 48, I have only just begun to see how childhood trauma has affected my life. I wish I had someone explain trauma to me like this a long time ago!
Thank you for your comment. I'm so sorry that this happened to you and that you perhaps didn't have the information to make sense of everything you had been through. Hopefully we can all work together to make this topic more widely spoken about.
@@TheWorryPeople I've been told that I should have had anxiety attacks by the age of 10...I have led a successful (professional) and married with one child life...I am 62 now. I would love to hear you speak about Mother/Daughter relationships. Though my daughter is well-loved and supported to the best of my ability, (she is 30), I am being told that my presence "triggers" her. Our small family is broken and I am on the hamster wheel as I wait for her to figure out what it is about me that causes her anxiety. She lives a good thousand miles away and we "maybe" text and or see one another a few times per year. But I hear that this is so very common between mothers and daughters. I wouldn't know...my mom died when I was nine. I am unable to understand her perspective compared to my very neglected and abusive upbringing. Not asking for personal advice here...but if you might create a video on this dynamic. I would love to understand what's up with this?
Please please do more of these educational videos!! Going into my first year of MSc Clinical Psychology and your explanations are so informative and fun to understand! ❤
Personally, I feel iffy about ACE scores being used when talking about or working with individuals: predicting outcomes for people based on what others have subjected them to isn't very empowering, especially when appropriate therapy is so hard to come by. The aftermath of abuse is bad enough without the weather forecaster telling you that you are xxxx% more likely to die by suicide. But maybe some people find learning about ACEs a relief, or normalises their breakdown? I thought it was a very accessible video overall. Thank you for being such a compassionate and clear explainer of complicated things, lovely Miranda x
Hello! This is a really good point Marianna. I think the only time I've spoken about ACEs outside of an academic setting was with a friend, who felt that they were really failing in life after a tough upbringing, and I spoke about it to highlight like "hey, you're beating all the odds"! But this tbf was an exchange that felt ok/useful because we have a very strong personal relationship... outside of this, I'm not sure how appropriate it would be? Or at least it would be much harder to gauge how the information could be received? Also, I have my own issues with ACEs (like why is your parents splitting up scored the same as you being sexually abused?!), but it's so entrenched in trauma literature that I thought it was important to give it at least a cursory glance haha. Hoping to do a couple more vids on this theme in the future as it feels like this barely scratched the surface !!!
This was incredibly informative. Thank you. I’m particularly interested in how childhood trauma influences the themes in psychosis. Children who experience neglect for example, may have delusions that they are special and chosen which is the psyches way of healing. People who were physically abused or tortured have delusions that they are being chased or attacked. Unfortunately psychiatry doesn’t acknowledge this enough and underlying traumas are expressed as an “addition to” and patients get labelled with “disorder”. Actually it is ORDER, congruent and healing to experience psychosis in response to trauma. Antipsychotics stop the healing process midway which is why people are having more episodes than ever and their relapse episodes pick up where they left off - like a movie that must be played out in it’s entirety. Very interesting.
The video is great. I love how you broke it down so that everyone can understand something that effects a good number of the population. The only suggestion I have is that I wish you had mentioned how resilience can counteract ACEs. There is hope for those with high ACE scores.
Thank you for your comment Rachel! I completely agree - I was really conscious by the end of the video that I had maybe painted a really negative picture of people who had experienced trauma :( I will absolutely hold your thoughts in mind and hope to emphasise this when I get round to doing a video on trauma-informed care.
Ahh so glad you liked it! Check out Dan Siegel's hand model of the brain (link in the description) - his explanation is way more detailed but I absolutely love it :) feels sooo idiot-proof haha!!
Thanks, Miranda, that was a really good video. I particularly liked the analogy of the decreasing zone of tolerance which can cause increased difficulties in managing emotions. The quotes were provided were also very succinct in getting the point across. Look forward to more videos.
Ava!! I was trying to find a way to message you yesterday - how weird!! I use premiere pro - you can get a student subscription for about £16 which you might be interested in if editing is something you enjoy. They do a free trial I think if you wanted to try it out :)
@@TheWorryPeople oooh nice def gonna have a look :) aha how weird! Well if u do whenever just dm me @ava_mason1 on insta or my name on fb is Ava Jean Catherine mason :)
Can you be my lecturer please? HAHA This was amazing!! You somehow covered so much in 14mins and it was sooooo easy to understand compared to my standard one hour lectures. :)
"trauma isn't just one BIG event but multiple smaller events" THANK YOU SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!!
I thought that was common sense
!!!!!! So important!!!!
Oh hey it me! I was emotional neglected and abused by a parent and series of teachers from 5 onwards along with a host of other things I won’t go into. As soon as I had managed to form a sense of self outside of the family unit (believe I was 19), I sought help and was diagnosed with c-PTSD along with AuDHD the former they suspect developed around 7-9. I’ve been in some form of therapy ever since (I’m 29 now) and likely will need some kind of therapy my whole life. My brain was irrevocably damaged because of the abuse I suffered as a child, and while I have learned how to manage better it was a real blow to find that out at 19. Even with all the therapy I received, it took me a long time to recognise the child abuse for what it was, because when that’s all you’ve known, it doesn’t register as such.
Hi! As a current Trainee, I just wanted to say how useful I've found your content, both in the lead up to getting onto the Doctorate, but also now I'm here as well. This video was also invaluable for me in preparing for delivering a teaching session on the impact of trauma within my CAMHS placement, so thank you so much for this. You're an inspiration to me, and I wish you all the best :)
This was really well explained! I was consistently physically and emotionally abused by my dad in my childhood, and it left me barely able to function as an adult. I have Complex PTSD, depression, anxiety and more as a result of all that childhoid trauma. At 48, I have only just begun to see how childhood trauma has affected my life. I wish I had someone explain trauma to me like this a long time ago!
Thank you for your comment. I'm so sorry that this happened to you and that you perhaps didn't have the information to make sense of everything you had been through. Hopefully we can all work together to make this topic more widely spoken about.
@@TheWorryPeople I've been told that I should have had anxiety attacks by the age of 10...I have led a successful (professional) and married with one child life...I am 62 now. I would love to hear you speak about Mother/Daughter relationships. Though my daughter is well-loved and supported to the best of my ability, (she is 30), I am being told that my presence "triggers" her. Our small family is broken and I am on the hamster wheel as I wait for her to figure out what it is about me that causes her anxiety. She lives a good thousand miles away and we "maybe" text and or see one another a few times per year. But I hear that this is so very common between mothers and daughters. I wouldn't know...my mom died when I was nine. I am unable to understand her perspective compared to my very neglected and abusive upbringing. Not asking for personal advice here...but if you might create a video on this dynamic. I would love to understand what's up with this?
Please please do more of these educational videos!! Going into my first year of MSc Clinical Psychology and your explanations are so informative and fun to understand! ❤
Aww yay! So glad you enjoyed them and that the information is digestible!
Personally, I feel iffy about ACE scores being used when talking about or working with individuals: predicting outcomes for people based on what others have subjected them to isn't very empowering, especially when appropriate therapy is so hard to come by. The aftermath of abuse is bad enough without the weather forecaster telling you that you are xxxx% more likely to die by suicide. But maybe some people find learning about ACEs a relief, or normalises their breakdown? I thought it was a very accessible video overall. Thank you for being such a compassionate and clear explainer of complicated things, lovely Miranda x
Hello! This is a really good point Marianna. I think the only time I've spoken about ACEs outside of an academic setting was with a friend, who felt that they were really failing in life after a tough upbringing, and I spoke about it to highlight like "hey, you're beating all the odds"! But this tbf was an exchange that felt ok/useful because we have a very strong personal relationship... outside of this, I'm not sure how appropriate it would be? Or at least it would be much harder to gauge how the information could be received? Also, I have my own issues with ACEs (like why is your parents splitting up scored the same as you being sexually abused?!), but it's so entrenched in trauma literature that I thought it was important to give it at least a cursory glance haha. Hoping to do a couple more vids on this theme in the future as it feels like this barely scratched the surface !!!
This was incredibly informative. Thank you. I’m particularly interested in how childhood trauma influences the themes in psychosis. Children who experience neglect for example, may have delusions that they are special and chosen which is the psyches way of healing. People who were physically abused or tortured have delusions that they are being chased or attacked. Unfortunately psychiatry doesn’t acknowledge this enough and underlying traumas are expressed as an “addition to” and patients get labelled with “disorder”. Actually it is ORDER, congruent and healing to experience psychosis in response to trauma. Antipsychotics stop the healing process midway which is why people are having more episodes than ever and their relapse episodes pick up where they left off - like a movie that must be played out in it’s entirety. Very interesting.
No one has ever touched upon this topic before, this was a much needed video. Please do a video on trauma informed care. Keep up the great content 😁
Thank you so much! I'll keep at it :)
The video is great. I love how you broke it down so that everyone can understand something that effects a good number of the population. The only suggestion I have is that I wish you had mentioned how resilience can counteract ACEs. There is hope for those with high ACE scores.
Thank you for your comment Rachel! I completely agree - I was really conscious by the end of the video that I had maybe painted a really negative picture of people who had experienced trauma :( I will absolutely hold your thoughts in mind and hope to emphasise this when I get round to doing a video on trauma-informed care.
Absolute best video yet! LOVE the way you explain things - particularly love the hand analogy and the watermelon! Amazing!
Ahh so glad you liked it! Check out Dan Siegel's hand model of the brain (link in the description) - his explanation is way more detailed but I absolutely love it :) feels sooo idiot-proof haha!!
Thank you Miranda for such an informative video. More videos of Childhood trauma, and your experience working with children with autism.
Thanks, Miranda, that was a really good video. I particularly liked the analogy of the decreasing zone of tolerance which can cause increased difficulties in managing emotions. The quotes were provided were also very succinct in getting the point across. Look forward to more videos.
Really glad you enjoyed Sampath! Thank you for the feedback
Fantastically informative video and I found it really helpful how you applied the window of tolerance, thank you.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and feed back :)
Excellent video bringing in so much theory and applying it to an important topic in such a short space of time... Miranda you're a magician! Thanks 😊
Hahah thank you so much Melody! Definitely a whistle stop tour, hoping to make a part two at some point soon :)
Loved this. You should do more of these!
great video! a video on trauma informed care would be very welcomed 🤗
Love this video as my phd is in childhood trauma! What program do you use for your zooms/edits/illustrations? :)
Ava!! I was trying to find a way to message you yesterday - how weird!! I use premiere pro - you can get a student subscription for about £16 which you might be interested in if editing is something you enjoy. They do a free trial I think if you wanted to try it out :)
@@TheWorryPeople oooh nice def gonna have a look :) aha how weird! Well if u do whenever just dm me @ava_mason1 on insta or my name on fb is Ava Jean Catherine mason :)
But what are ways we can heal the trauma
Hey! I'm hoping to tackle this question in a future video around trauma-informed care :)
Brilliantly explained on the Internal Working Model!
Glad it was helpful!!
Just curious, how is it 2M years old?
Hello! It's a rough evolutionary timeline - so an estimation of when that brain structure was first observed in our ancestors :)
Thank you.
My pleasure!
Can you be my lecturer please? HAHA This was amazing!! You somehow covered so much in 14mins and it was sooooo easy to understand compared to my standard one hour lectures. :)
Oh well haven't you gone and made my day Daniela! Can't tell you how happy that makes me :)
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
Is it just me or does Miranda look a bit like Emily Blunt?
Hahah that is a first, but I'll take it!