Transgenerational Trauma Stories for my Book
Added 2020-06-08 20:07:56 +0000 UTCI am going to work on the chapter about transgenerational trauma in two weeks and would love to showcase some stories about it. These could be stories about being an immigrant, in poverty, your parents going through hard times and passing down that anxiety, upset and PTSD to you. It could also affect people of color, our jewish community, or those in the LGBTQ+ community. I would love to share a wide variety of stories, and know that of course I won't use your name or anything you don't want me to. If you have a story to share, please message it to me on here, and try to keep it to a paragraph or two if possible :) Thank you so so much!! xoxo
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Hi Kati - I've sent you a private message in relation to my personal experience; hope it's of some use π
Katie
2020-06-23 00:27:14 +0000 UTCTransgenerational Trauma. My father was born in 1950s/60s Glasgow with a Catholic father and Protestant mother. He was the oldest of 7 kids. The two youngest were twins, one of whom had complications at birth and as a result ended up disabled. He spent a large chunk of his first year in and out of hospital. My dad as the result was left to look after the other 4 or 5 kids at a young age. I've not done too much digging into the past because I'm led to believe that my grand father wasn't a particularly nice man (he died when I was 8 months old). My dad got out of there as soon as he was 16 and moved south of the border where he eventually met and married my mother. He always has had anger issues and I believe they are a result of trauma in his childhood both from his relationship with his father and having to grow up so young to look after the other kids. When I was a child my dad worked away as a Marine Engineer and when he was home for leave he was always reasserting his authority on my mother, my sister and I. There was a total inconsistancy of care in the parenting that we received and I witnessed lots of domestic violence and abuse towards all three of us, along with constant put downs etc. I'm now a 36 year old guy, recently diagnosed with EUPD/ BPD along with Depression and Anxiety which makes a whole load of sense after struggling most of my life. I started a course called Structured Clinical Management and it's been pointed out the reasons why I have the issues I do are linked to my childhood trauma which were probably a way of dad being who he is because of his childhood trauma. I'm pretty sure that he has a couple of PD's and had he ever have had any kind of therapy or psych help he'd have been able to deal with them and my family would have been way better off right now.
Nick Higney
2020-06-09 11:00:51 +0000 UTC
