Trauma has been defined as the “pain that stays.” It is an emotional and mental pain that grips a person whether they are a child or an adult. This is called psychic pain. Because it is the deepest of pain it encompasses the mind, will and emotions. It is what is felt by being wounded by traumatic events.

This pain is the pain a child feels when their personhood has been attacked and wounded. The pain does not seemingly go away with time. It is an abiding pain that stays with the child throughout life, until they can get the healing they need. This is why South County Christian Counseling is dedicated to helping survivors with all kinds of trauma to heal. A study done with the cooperation of 550 colleagues working the field of traumatic stress in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, St. Louis University Medical Center reveled; “that a significantly high proportion of severely disturbed individuals with prior traumatic events, that ninety-eight percent of those with Dissociative Identity Disorder had some type of either physical, sexual, or psychological abuse.”