Comments PM’d and publicly shared included:
“They shouldn’t be here, anyway.”
and
“It’s not your job as a therapist to be political!”
or
“The Trump administration is the best thing to ever happen to this country and those kids are being taken care of so stop posting about this.”
(Side note: Probably don’t follow a liberal, Berkeley-based trauma therapist’s social media channels or newsletter list if you’re affronted at her advocating for the humane treatment of innocent children. That’s like going to a butcher’s shop and being offended that they have meat for sale. Just saying…)
This was coupled with receiving a thought-provoking comment on my blog the other week in response to a recent post. It had me thinking about how siblings who grow up in the same dysfunctional home environment can have wildly different responses to their upbringing as adults and how this can often greatly challenge their relationship as adult siblings.
So, if you’ve ever wondered why you and your sibling(s) share a common history but not a common response…
If you’ve felt unseen, unsupported, or diminished by them for how you experienced your childhood…
Or if you’ve ever questioned how adults can look at the detainment and maltreatment of innocent children and respond in such polar opposite ways…
You may find today’s post thought-provoking.
With trauma, experience is subjective.
First, I want to share with you the comment I received on my recent blog post, “Full Body Papercuts And A Bathtub Full Of Lemon Juice: A Reframe On Borderline Personality Disorder.” A reader wrote:
“Hi Annie, I’m curious as to how it can be explained when 2 children grow up in the same environment and one is DX [diagnosed] with bpd [Borderline Personality Disorder] and one not. If bpd manifests due to trauma, both experienced and only one develops bpd, there must be a neurology and biology component to the illness as well. Feel it would be helpful for some to expand on the “why” of bpd. If trauma alone was the culprit, we’d be seeing much higher numbers of DX individuals.”
