There Is No Health Without Mental Health (3/21)

When someone shares their trauma, they’re often also battling feelings of shame and guilt.

These emotions are common responses to trauma because, over time, people start to internalize the pain and blame themselves for what happened.

They may feel shame because they believe they were weak or responsible, even though what happened was out of their control.

Guilt can come from the feeling that they could have done something differently to prevent the trauma or its aftermath, even when that’s not true.

This is how trauma rewires the brain—it convinces people that they are at fault or that they deserved what happened, which feeds into feelings of inadequacy.