In human and animal studies on trauma, it has been observed that there are changes in the genetic codes and the structure of the brain's network systems in the events exposed to acute stress.
War, hunger, physical violence, harassment, rape, massacres, injustices are traumatic events that cause intense stress. Traumatic experiences and coping methods change the person's family history, genes, and brain structure. In other words, we can summarize as follows: While our mothers were still in our grandmother's womb, the stress our grandmothers experienced while pregnant is coded into our genetics. In other words, we get not only our eye and hair color from our families, but also the stress, traumas and ways of coping they experience. It has been concluded that children are born in the same way and that children are adversely affected in stress management. It has been observed that these children are also afraid of people they do not know and are sensitive to loud noises (Low cortisol indicates that people exposed to acute trauma have difficulty coping with stress).
There are traumatizing experiences and reflections in our lives. There are difficulties encountered in every period on the path of life, struggles to be made, decisions to be made. When we look at our geography and history, there are tens of generations who have experienced migrations, wars, famines, massacres and coups. These are events that affected the generation living at that time, but they did not affect every person to the same degree. As there are traumatic experiences, there are ways of coping with these events, resources and human will.
Today we are more knowledgeable about traumas and we can talk about it. We need to learn and develop ways of coping with therapy support in this regard. We must support ourselves and our future generations. As intergenerational traumas are transferred, healing and coping mechanisms can be transferred.
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