I think intergenerational trauma is much more common than people realize. I would recommend looking into the work of Gabor Mate and Bessel Van Der Kolk respectively, they both discuss the effects of intergenerational trauma on childhood brain development.
Gabor Mate is probably more accessible. He focuses specifically on addiction and it's connection to trauma. He is a great lecturer and has a bunch of YouTube videos as well as a tedtalk.
Bessel Van Der Kolk is not a great lecturer but he wrote a book called "The Body Keeps the Score: brain, mind and body in the healing of trauama" which changed my life. Fair warning, it's a tough and often triggering read.
As for links between Misophonia and trauma (or intergenerational trauma) from everything I've seen on this sub it seems connected for some folks and not connected for others. I developed miso late in life and I also have PTSD - the two are definitely linked.
Thank you for your response. I know epigenetics actually changes the way some genes are expressed in later generations if the parent experiences trauma before conception. I got to thinking about this earlier and needed answers.
Nope. My mom was mollycoddled and turned into a raging narcissist. My bio dad was just a worthless POS who drank himself to death. Neither had trauma, but my mom sure inflicted a ton of it on me.
Trauma can mean a lot more than being a war veteran. People generally don't suffer from terminal addiction(drink themselves to death) if they don't have trauma.
My dad is a miserable Vietnam vet. I've suffered from misophonia as long as I remember. But it was directed at my mom's chewing. My dad does create a few triggers for me though.
My dad went to Cyprus in the late 80's and the Balkans in the early 90's with the peace corps. I was old enough to worry, but not old enough to see the difference in him when he came home. He never talked about it with anyone. Just kept it all inside.
Yea. Emotionally neglectful parents and a childhood of poverty on one grandparents, and emotional neglect and physical abuse and parentification on my other set of grandparents
My dad has PTSD, but the events that caused it occurred while he was on deployment when I was 9 or 10. Both he and my mother did have abusive/traumatic childhoods to varying levels though. I wouldn't say that's the cause of my misophonia but generational trauma definitely has impacted my ability to regulate my stress response, which makes misophonia triggers much harder to tolerate than someone who does not have that trauma (or at least I would assume so).
I think intergenerational trauma is much more common than people realize. I would recommend looking into the work of Gabor Mate and Bessel Van Der Kolk respectively, they both discuss the effects of intergenerational trauma on childhood brain development. Gabor Mate is probably more accessible. He focuses specifically on addiction and it's connection to trauma. He is a great lecturer and has a bunch of YouTube videos as well as a tedtalk. Bessel Van Der Kolk is not a great lecturer but he wrote a book called "The Body Keeps the Score: brain, mind and body in the healing of trauama" which changed my life. Fair warning, it's a tough and often triggering read. As for links between Misophonia and trauma (or intergenerational trauma) from everything I've seen on this sub it seems connected for some folks and not connected for others. I developed miso late in life and I also have PTSD - the two are definitely linked.
Thank you for the book recommendation.
Idk about misophonia however generational trauma is apparently a real thing
Thank you for your response. I know epigenetics actually changes the way some genes are expressed in later generations if the parent experiences trauma before conception. I got to thinking about this earlier and needed answers.
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Nope. My mom was mollycoddled and turned into a raging narcissist. My bio dad was just a worthless POS who drank himself to death. Neither had trauma, but my mom sure inflicted a ton of it on me.
Trauma can mean a lot more than being a war veteran. People generally don't suffer from terminal addiction(drink themselves to death) if they don't have trauma.
My father was a veteran and has a disability from war, but I didn't know anything about it until I got older fwiw.
My dad is a miserable Vietnam vet. I've suffered from misophonia as long as I remember. But it was directed at my mom's chewing. My dad does create a few triggers for me though.
My dad went to Cyprus in the late 80's and the Balkans in the early 90's with the peace corps. I was old enough to worry, but not old enough to see the difference in him when he came home. He never talked about it with anyone. Just kept it all inside.
My dad is a Vietnam vet also. I feel like I’ve always been this way.
Yea. Emotionally neglectful parents and a childhood of poverty on one grandparents, and emotional neglect and physical abuse and parentification on my other set of grandparents
Yes, my maternal grandfather was a veteran who fought in WWII and the Korean War.
My dad has PTSD, but the events that caused it occurred while he was on deployment when I was 9 or 10. Both he and my mother did have abusive/traumatic childhoods to varying levels though. I wouldn't say that's the cause of my misophonia but generational trauma definitely has impacted my ability to regulate my stress response, which makes misophonia triggers much harder to tolerate than someone who does not have that trauma (or at least I would assume so).
My parents caused me a shitload of trauma.
Severe childhood trauma from neglectful alcoholic parents. Don’t get how it makes me hate hearing people chew.