The article "Can You Get ‘Stuck’ at the Age You Experienced Trauma" by Simone Scully, tells us about different types of trauma and how this trauma can affect your emotional maturity. When something traumatic occurs to a person, their emotions "freeze," causing them to be unable to respond to the trauma in a healthy way. This can happen at any time in a person's life, but it seems to affect people more if it happened sometime during their childhood.

First, we must establish different ways people can get traumatized. There are four common ways: abuse, neglect, accidents, and bullying. These things usually happen during one's childhood, and they can affect a person for a really long time. I'm sure some of you can relate to one of these experiences I listed, and chances are, you probably recovered from them in a healthy way. Maybe you had your Christianity help you through these experiences, or maybe you just had to go through them alone. Either way, you probably made a healthy response to the trauma and can deal with it maturely.

But there are many people who didn't deal with their trauma in a healthy way. When something traumatic does occur in a persons childhood, it causes them to be stuck emotionally like I previously mentioned. What this typically means is that when you are faced with something that reminds you of the trauma you had, immature responses may set in since you've never really fully healthily recovered from said trauma. An example of this is when people avoid mature topics since they feel too overwhelmed to deal with it, or when people just breakdown due to the topic. This can cause many mental health issues like depression, excessive anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, and many other things.

There are ways to help you heal, like therapy. Talking about your trauma may also help you with your healing process which is great. But some things just stick with you your entire life, and no amount of therapy will fully heal you. You either accept the trauma as a part of your life, or you succumb to it and those mental health issues I listed before may begin to settle in for good. Either way, you are never fully healed.