Trauma, Pain, and Moving Ahead or Basking in the Sun

Are you Dealing with Serious Trauma?

Are you in Pain?

What is the Level of any Trauma You Face?

How are You Coping with Trauma?

How are You Coping with Pain?

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I am a white man — 70 years old — living in Chicago, Illinois, USA

I am not dealing with serious trauma?

I did face trauma as a child. I did not bond with either parent or anyone else. I was and am autistic, though I didn’t know of it until recently. I had no friends during most of my childhood. I never learned That I had feelings — yet alone, how to deal with the feelings I had.

I could debate with myself how major the trauma was. Given that Depression was a major part of my life for my first 66 years, the trauma obviously seriously impacted me.

I am healing from my trauma. I will be healing for the rest of my life.

In some ways I am in pain.

I have two stents that allow a arterial blockage to be averted — I will have a heart condition for the rest of my life. It isn’t painful, but it bothers me (a little).

Constipation reminds me every day of many things — aging, that I can’t control a lot in my life — though there is much more that I can work through. It is tolerable now. I can live with the pain and generally not be seriously impacted.