Quote Originally Posted by Fatboxingfan View Post
Gandalf I really do not think your research has been thorough enough on the subject ....you really do like to simplify things when they are a lot more complicated than you make them out to be. Your wishful thinking seems to Trump scientific evidence almost every single time. You latch onto one author who validates your particular preference and then you claim it to be scientific evidence for the whole world. Very few people can recover from severe trauma so that they can live the life they would have lived had they not experienced that trauma. You love to speak in vague terms like recovery but what does recovery actually mean? You are so vague that most of the time it is very hard to dispute anything with you on a point-by-point basis

Now back to Ruiz. @Mark TKO you got that right about the rubber match but if he doesn't lose the weight it will turn out to be a BLUBBER MATCH.
Things are indeed complicated, but at the same time you, who have no psychiatric qualifications are making blanket statements like 'Very few people can recover from severe trauma' and the fact is that they can, according to those who do have a history of research. If you would like to provide a source to what you are saying then cite one. The majority of those who seek help for OCD for instance either recover or at least find tools to minimize its impact on their lives and that can easily be backed up. Now those that do not seek to remedy the problem are another case entirely. But in terms of say BPD two thirds or more improve within a year and 90% almost totally adapt to live relatively ordinary lives within 2 years. Now that is a disorder that most typically develops because of childhood trauma. Of course every case is different as every experience is different.

There is nothing vague in the data collated by accredited clinicians. The only thing missing is the individual story, but we are often talking about things like child sex abuse, violence, abandonment and these kinds of things if we are talking about genuine childhood trauma.