Trauma Lyrics

Virtually every week there's a study

That more and more people are needing or seeking help for mental health issues

More and more in youth are diagnosed with anxiety

Many more kids are diagnosed

With the whole plethora of childhood conditions such as ADHD

Attention deficite hyperactive disorder

Depression is rising

Youth suicide is rising

Addictions are rising

Genuinely it's an epidemic

And I'm very passionate about it for a simple reason

Because in thirty years or more of medical practice

What I found was that the common template for virtually all afflictions

Mental illness, physical disease is in fact trauma

You're waiting for somebody to scream at you

You're waiting for something to be thrown

You don't know if you're going to eat

You don't know if your going to be evicted

So you're constantly anxious and stressed

I used to think this was a rarity but when I talk to people

A huge number of people have this traumatic experience as a child

That they carry with them

It's like a monkey on your back

When we realize that our traumatic responses and imprints are not ourselves

And that we can work them through

And thus become ourselves

Because it's too painful to be ourselves

And what they do is they disconnect from themselves

When you disconnect from yourself

You no longer have yourself

You lost yourself

When we talk about trauma

We usually think of something terrible happening to a person

But that's not the only trauma there is

And so the other kind of trauma may not have to do with terrible things happening to you

Parents who are so alienated from their own gut feelings

That they will let their infants cry

That's all it takes

During your first eighteen years of life

If a parent or other adult in the household often or very often would swear at you

Insult you, put you down or humiliate you: Step inside the circle

Step inside the circle

Step inside the circle

Mental illness, physical disease is in fact trauma

Fundamentally the message is that with our minds we create the world

So authenticity is not some new age, pseudo spiritual concept

It's actually a survival necessity

Fundamentally the message is that with our minds we create the world