How trauma is different for men and women?
Women have a two to three times higher chance of being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress disorder.
It is important to note that Trauma is not a thing, an action, or a situation/experience you have or witnessed. Trauma is a biological reaction in the body. A reaction that happens when the body and mind cannot process any more information and that overload sends you in to your stress response.
Men are more likely to witness certain types of trauma associated with physical violence such as war, fights, and other acts of violence with other men.
Women experience trauma as well but in a majority of the cases are sexual assault in nature.
For men and women, the same regions of the brain are impacted. if that's true then, what’s the difference?
Societal influence
Society influences gender in major ways.
Depicting how women dress and present themselves presents a unique problem when there is a trauma history. Being that women face sexual trauma more frequently than men, the ability to read interpret, and act accordingly to social red flags leaves women in unknowingly dangerous situations at times. This is because sexual trauma impacts one’s body in so many ways. The abuse to the body might have been pleasurable…
