Do you know what trauma bonding actually means?
Live MintAt a recent gathering, someone said they had “trauma bonded" with another person over the challenges of working in similar roles—not an accurate use of the word. I asked a few mental health professionals if they could hypothetically replace “trauma bonding" with a clearer term, what would it be? “Trauma bonding in adult relationships often stems from attachment injury experienced in childhood within the parent-child connection," she says. But even “abuse-driven attachment" can be misleading for someone unfamiliar with trauma bonding theory, argues Ishita Pateria, a counselling psychologist from Mumbai. During the pandemic, Pateria noticed many clients using “trauma bonding" loosely to describe the connections they formed with others navigating the collective trauma of covid-19.
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