Moment 210: Dr. Gabor Maté: Your Trauma Is Secretly Controlling You! (Until You Try This)

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  Speaking about our early experiences,

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  the first word in the sort of subtitle of your book is the word trauma.

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  It's a word that I've talked about a lot on this podcast and I've had a lot of people here that have opened up about their traumas.

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  How do you define trauma?

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  I know society has defined it in its own way, but how do you define it?

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  I define it very specifically.

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  It's not something bad that happens to you.

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  It's not that, you know, I went to this movie last night and I was traumatized.

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  No, you weren't.

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  You were just... or you had some emotional pain, but you weren't traumatized.

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  Trauma means a wound.

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  That's the literal meaning of the word.

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  It's a Greek word for wounding.

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  So trauma is a psychological wound that you sustain.

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  And it behaves like a wound.

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  So on the one hand, a wound, if it's very raw, if you touch it, it just really hurts.

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  So if I have a wound around not being wanted, then, or the belief that I'm not.

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  then decades later, if anything reminds me of that,

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  it hurts as much as it did when I originally incurred the wound.

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  So in one sense, trauma is an unhealed wound that touched, we get triggered.

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