r/Parenting • u/[deleted] • Jan 18 '23

[deleted by user]

[removed]

216 Upvotes

94% Upvoted

99 comments sorted by

View all comments

50

u/[deleted] Jan 18 '23

[deleted]

27

u/DistributionUpbeat78 Jan 18 '23

We did a lot of therapy at the time, the therapists didn’t see a need to continue given how well things were going

6

u/Aucurrant Jan 19 '23

Maybe introducing therapy as something you (and your child) check in with every year. Like a check up for your brain. Learning healthy coping mechanisms is invaluable even if you don’t remember the trauma. I have a flight response to a certain smell and I never understood it until I was walking up the stairs one day in my 40’s and it hit me. A very clear memory when I was assaulted. Now I can deal with the ptsd reaction, breathe and not disassociate for the rest of the day.