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Defining
Family Trauma Family
Trauma
Family trauma
can be divided into five major categories (this division may not account for every
possible situation.):  | Family
Loss;
Unpredictable Families;
Families where Children Take on Adult
Roles;
Families of Deprivation;
Families of Emotional, Physical and
Sexual Abuse. |
Each category alone constitutes trauma, but, in reality, most individuals
and families struggling with addictions and other major dysfunction experience
multiple situations.
Common addictions in the family include the following:
Alcoholism and drug
addiction, including addiction to prescription medications.
Workaholism,
as seen in long hours, extended and/or numerous business trips, many hours working
at home and during vacations, work preoccupation, over-involvement in outside
interests such as clubs, politics, religion, or sports.
Sex addictions, including
Internet pornography or cyber relationships, affairs, pornography, pedophilia,
prostitution, chronic masturbation.
Relationship addictions involve an adult
engaging in multiple romantic relationships, often choosing people who are incapable
of commitment. This tends to take a cyclical form, where partners who all share
similar characteristics (usually negative) are recycled in and out of a person’s
life.
Rage addiction is a pattern where anger and explosive rage are a dominant
method of controlling relationships and dealing with life stress.
Eating
disorders, such as anorexia, bulimia, over-eating, use of food as a means of controlling
emotions, and hording of food.
Compulsive exercise includes driven excessive
exercise (at times combined with eating disorders).
Smoking and other tobacco
use.
Money addictions include parental overspending, gambling, or hording
of finances.
Media addiction includes situations where overuse of the computer,
games, television, or reading becomes an avenue of escaping life stresses and
responsibilities.
by
Steven Earll, MA,MS,LPC,LAC,www.pureintimacy.com
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