Can trauma cause a permanent personality change in an individual?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been through a traumatic experience and I keep having more ongoing issues and I started off as an extrovert, but I feel like I’m becoming an introvert.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely it can. There was a woman from Australia who was abused by her father and she now has about 5 different personalities. Trauma can make us go from being sweet and kind to anger and lashing out and hating the world. Some people will shut down and start to isolate themselves

[jshm2]

No. Psychologists would be out of a job, if it did.

Sure, most are full of shit and just tell you what you want to hear. But there are always a mixture of issues in all individuals.

Could be you're just making things up and the "trauma" didn't happen as bad as you think it did.

[Asker]

Whatever.

[stratford]

Yes - it forms connections in the brain that change a person.

[stratford]

Thanks for the MHO

[Surely]

Yea. It is called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD for short.
A lot of military veterans are suffering from trauma.

[JackCarter]

Yes
Pain changes people...

[BoopBoopBeep]

Real trauma, yeah, not this made up trauma that everybody claims to have no a days.

[Asker]

Whatever.

[BoopBoopBeep]

Eloquent response. That hit too close to home for you?

[Asker]

No. It’s just not worth trying to convince a self diagnosed psychiatrist to believe they’re wrong. It’s a waste of energy.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I don't claim to be a psychiatrist. I don't have to be to know that "daddy didn't love me" isn't real trauma. People that saw their friends die in a car wreck have trauma. Rape victims have trauma. People who were nearly killed by a loved on have trauma. Your boyfriend left you for the slutty chick down the street? That's not trauma.

[Asker]

Excuse me? Now you’re a self diagnosed psychic? I am a rape victim by the way and I’ve faced more real difficulties with mental health, obesity and alcoholism and poverty than you sound like you’ve faced in a day.

[Asker]

I’ve also watched my grandfather die and been a stalking victim.

[Asker]

You’re just an idiot. A nobody. Hence my terms ‘whatever.’

[Asker]

by the way my best friend’s been in a car accident and has post traumatic stress disorder, another has a terminally sick mum and my other friend might have cancer and all need my support. Would you like to mock that?

[BoopBoopBeep]

What are you babbling about. That's obviously real trauma. I even expressly said rape would be real trauma not this trendy made up shit. Everybody isn't attacking you child take a xanax. Jesus what a narcissist (persecution subtype).

[Asker]

Oh, calm down.

[BoopBoopBeep]

I'm not the one shrieking about how i'm being attacked when nobody is even talking about me. You're going to give me "trauma".

[Asker]

I’m not engaging anymore. You’re looking for a fight. I’m looking to have my questions answered.

[BoopBoopBeep]

YOU are the antagonistic one child. You got defensive right from the start and assumed some stranger was persecuting you. I don't even know who you are much less know about your background. You assumed a comment, which I stand by, was a personal attack on you and had a hissy fit. If anybody is looking for a fight it's you. Here's an olive branch. Hope you have a less stressful rest of your day

[In_Trance]

depends on the experience

[ShesRad80]

yes it can.

[jahaims]

It can