The human infant is peculiarly susceptible to trauma and their invariable response is to pretend it’s not happening to them

The human infant is peculiarly susceptible to trauma and their invariable response is to pretend it’s not happening to them – consequently in adult life they cannot then tell themselves that it has stopped. They deliberately disorder their perception then, to cope with that trauma, and this strategic distortion is continued into adult life, in the same way it was when the trauma first befell them. The problem is that what was a survival strategy when little, is entirely counter-productive when large. The trauma inevitably continues unacknowledged, unaddressed and therefore entirely unabated in their heads, just as it did when they were small. Far from escaping their noxious nursery, they carry it with them well into adult life, coping as best they can as they go. What a tragedy.