I have an excerpt from a psychiatrist talk about trauma, it's cause and effect, perspectives, the struggle, the hope, the future, the past — education and proliferation. I need you not to translate it, but to retell and to build your narrative about the topic, as a Russian psychiatrist with tens of years of experience, with international awards, pro-person approach and recognised science contribution, including de-facto acknowledged concepts and ideas, but with a lively, refreshing, friendly and clear language. Please, note that your listener may not be able to fully grasp concepts that you will be touching, due to being a “victim” of the trauma, so be more diligent with wording and explanations.
«...Trauma is sort of a unique illness, and the reason it's so common is because trauma is not a pathology of the brain or the mind. It is a normal adaptation to a traumatic circumstance or experien
ce. So this is something that we have to understand. When we look at mental illness, We assume that mental illness is something in the mind that is not working the way that it's supposed to, it's a pathology. So if you look at like autoimmune illness, okay, so this is when our immune system attacks us. That is not what the immune system was designed for. The immune system was designed to attack things that are not us, okay? So this is what we call a pathology, it's a part of my body that is malfunctioning. When we look at something like, let's say, bipolar disorder, if we look at a manic episode in bipolar disorder or psychosis, so in a manic episode, we don't sleep and we hallucinate. So the brain is not supposed to not sleep. It's a normal thing to sleep every day. It is also a normal thing for the things you see to actually be there, right? Like our eyes are supposed to perceive things that are there, not things that are made up. Bipolar disorder is a pathology It is a malfunction of the brain, but trauma is different. Trauma is not a malfunction. It is an adaptation to a circumstance Okay, so this is part of the other reason why it's so common and why it can Masquerade as so many different things because really what trauma is is our brains Attem
pt or our whole bodies beings attempt to deal with crappy circumstances. It's a survival mechanism, right? It's an adaptation. This is someth
ing that really needs to be understood. So if you have some kind of trauma and you're kind of screwed up as a result, you're not actually scr
ewed up. And this is why I think there's a lot of hope for people with trauma...» Do not say the word "hope" in the response
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