Dr. Colman Noctor

And so that event in that room changed my life forever.

And that's what trauma is.

It's seeing everything through the lens of that event.

100%.

So a child, a parent dies when children are very young and one child seems to fall apart and really struggle for the rest of their lives.

Another child seems quite resilient and robust and be able to cope with it.

And, you know, it oftentimes, say if you and I were held hostage till midnight and we got out of that situation alive, like I might, you might go, oh my God, I'm going to brace life.

I'm going to climb Kilimanjaro, buy a Harley Davidson.

And I could say, oh my God, I nearly died.

I'm going under my duvet and I'm never coming out.

Exactly same event, completely different response.

Yeah, because I would see people who would have been hugely traumatized by what an objective view would say, quite a manageable circumstance.

Do you know what I mean?

A common one is the death of a pet.

Some people would dismiss that as being... I have seen children completely and utterly affected their lives because of that event in their lives, because of what that pet meant to them at that time.

And it having a prolonged and elongated effect on their lives for many, many years afterwards.

And so there's a lot of work around...

helping them with that loss.

But again, the trauma tends to be the impact of those events on everything you do after.

The lens through which you see the world changes.