Dr. Colman Noctor

If you were in a serious car accident and there were sirens and paramedics, and then you hear sirens in your later life and it brings you back into that, you're physically feeling the illness of being back in that trauma.

Veterans who come back from war and hear fireworks can oftentimes be triggered by the fireworks.

But the trigger warnings that they would have ahead of a TV show or something is somebody who has the potential to be offended

And that's not the same as being triggered into trauma.

Do you know what I mean?

And just because you're offended doesn't mean that you're traumatised.

Does that make sense?

The narcissistic... The narcissistic borderline personality disorder.

Yes, yes.

Yeah.

Obviously, I guess the attachment thing, because it's my core business, it bothers me probably more than other people.

But what I would say is those like narcissism, gaslighting, trauma, trigger, like they're big words.

They would have big meaning for me in terms of when I would use those in a clinical context, they would be carefully chosen and they would be, you know, and it's almost like I oftentimes think sometimes mental health become is a bit like the new gluten, right?

You know, that if you're a celiac disease and you have a fear of gluten because of what it will do to your body, and then you've people going around saying, I'm allergic to gluten and they've never had a test, they've never done an allergy test.

And you're kind of going, God, like that's, you're really, that upsets me.

Yeah, I would kind of I would say I usually clarify that with big T trauma and small T trauma, you know, so the kind of the small T trauma is kind of, yes, that events undoubtedly has upset you and hurt you.

And, you know, like something like a bereavement or a death or something, you know, it can be big T trauma changes you utterly forever, you know, almost like so.

Trauma is not the event.

It is the impact of the event on you ever afterwards.

So I remember one young girl saying to me, she said, the person who went into that room was different to the person who came out.