ABSTRACT
Some of the elements of the toxicity perhaps can be traced to a sense of chronic helplessness and loss of control that people feel in their lives. If it is true that children's lives are more toxic than ever before, it implies an inexorable increase in traumatization of our children. Sigmund Freud described the essence of trauma as an experience of helplessness of the ego, where the level of emotional arousal cannot be processed by the ordinary defence mechanisms usually deployed by the ego in managing anxiety. The capacity to make judgements in a given situation, and to use past experience, is a crucial ego function which can be disabled or damaged in traumatic situations and their sequellae. Normally in life experiences, one's worst violent, envious, or jealous phantasies are not confirmed or corroborated by external reality. This chapter presents a brief example of a child who, from his point a view, suffered from a toxic beginning to his life.
