I definitely have unresolved trauma, as per this article.
Great info.
Many people enter the therapy process with minimal awareness of their trauma history. When the trauma survivors are dissociative, they have the ability to block out an awareness of their trauma. They may know that their family had problems, or that their family was dysfunctional, etc, but they may believe they were never abused.
child abuse (Photo credit: Southworth Sailor)
However, blocking out conscious awareness of trauma does not mean that the survivors have no effects of that trauma. Using denial and dissociative skills does not mean that the abuse did not happen. Denial means that the person simply is refusing to acknowledge or accept the fact that they were traumatized. They are pretending they were not hurt, when they were actually hurt very badly.
Even if the memories of abuse are hidden from the survivor’s awareness, blocked trauma / unresolved trauma creates very noticeable and obvious symptoms that…
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Healing From Complex Trauma & PTSD/CPTSD 
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I am a 56 year old man who is just starting the journey towards healing. I have struggled all of my life trying to fix something inside of me I felt was broken. I’m tired of not having a normal life.