Trauma

[Chado2423]

Can divorce, break-ups, etc. cause severe Trauma in an otherwise normal and stable person?

[Parthon]

Yes, and no.

First it depends what you consider a normal and stable person. A majority of people are too consumed by their thoughts, feelings, opinions and judgements to be stable. When their own sense of self is invested in something so changable as those kinds of things, there's no stability to be found. In fact, from experience, normal people and stable people are a mutually exclusive bunch.

From the impact of the event on the person though, it depends on how centred and stable they are. If they are a rather wishywashy kinda person, then they will be heavily impacted by it, although they might rebound faster than most. If they are a normal person, I would say they have the greatest chance of trauma, because they will both be impacted by it, and hold onto the impact for the greatest time. If they are rather grounded, the events won't have that great an impact, and if they are really wise, they will learn from it.

It's really up to them for the direction and depth of the impact and the length of it's duration. Kind of a roundabout way of saying "Depends on the person really."

[Old Soul]

Can divorce, break-ups, etc. cause severe Trauma in an otherwise normal and stable person?

Agreeing with parthon, depends on the tools , coping skills the person has developed in order to deal with crisis

on the plus side........ these life crisis, divorce, job loss , family death etc
can all be used as an opportunity to develop and grow and learn life skills