Our goal at Springboard is to provide a safe space to work past all kinds of trauma and break the chains. Seek help for addiction: if mental health conditions exist, find dual diagnosis treatment but also find ways to get help for any addictions and break the chains.Seek counseling: find people qualified to help you cope with your feelings.Communicate: talk about what happened and how you felt.When coping with transgenerational trauma and substance use, people can work to overcome it by learning to: Entire families may be impacted by one person’s choices, but also by generations before them who unleash trauma on their loved ones. If they cannot do that, second and third generations become trauma ‘carriers.’ if left alone, a person can easily turn to substance use to deal. Intergenerational trauma occurs because survivors and immediate witnesses have not effectively processed the grief. When we try to remedy things ourselves using drugs and alcohol, we may not even know from where the pain originates, just that it exists. Trauma of any kind forces people to do things they may never do otherwise. Even if the second generation did not connect with trauma, the event is ever-present in some shape or form. In other words, strong emotions connected to trauma cannot help but get transferred as part of the survivors’ lives. It is because trauma was unthinkable that transference is possible. Some people are skeptical of transgenerational trauma, wondering if genes are complex enough to transfer another person’s feelings of an experience.
People enslaved through trafficking or other circumstances.People who struggle with C-PTSD may include: People who suffer often have been in situations with no physical or mental escape route. people with complex PTSD often experience prolonged periods of gaslighting, false accusations, or prolonged psychological manipulation.
In this case, transfer is often traced to complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), a very interpersonal form of PTSD. Sometimes trauma is transferred through encoding in the DNA. Symptoms can be tired to parents’ child-rearing, since trauma symptoms influence how they raise their children. Intergenerational trauma is often passed from parents to children. Intergenerational trauma occurs when trauma is transferred from one generation of survivors to the next. It is a multi-modal issue which requires holistic treatment for people to work through trauma that results in addiction and mental health disorders. The roots of addiction rarely begin with one person. It is true every person with addiction has to come to terms with their own addiction, admit the need for help, overcome denial, and seek support. Most people feel that addiction is an individual problem to solve and it is their responsibility to fix what is wrong while getting sober.