Rejection Trauma

Shirley J. Davis
5 min readFeb 12, 2022
Photo by Chinh Le Duc on Unsplash

Rejection is a normal part of human life as not every relationship is fair and good for us and may end. We have all felt the sting of being fired from a job or parting from someone who didn’t wish to date us anymore.

Rejection trauma is different. It begins in childhood with maltreatment and haunts us in adulthood. What is rejection trauma? What are its symptoms? Who is affected by rejection trauma? This piece will seek to answer…

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Shirley J. Davis

I am an author/speaker/grant writer in the U.S. My passion is authoring information about mental health disorders, especially dissociative identity disorder..