Trauma : A powerful emotional response to a distressing event, such as war, an accident, the unexpected loss of a loved one, or abuse. Trauma can continue to cause both emotional and physical symptoms for many years after the event has concluded.
Trauma Risk Factors
– The traumatic experience was unexpected
– The victim has experienced past traumas
– The trauma occurred during childhood
– Feeling of helplessness during the experience
– The experience happened repeatedly, or over a prolonged period of time.
– The victim is dealing with other major stressors, unrelated to the trauma.
Symptoms of Trauma
Everyone’s experience with trauma is unique. Some people will develop every symptom, while others develop very few. The following list of symptoms is not comprehensive, and should not be used to form a diagnosis :
– Avoidance of trauma reminders, including memories.
– Exaggerated startle response
– Irritability, anger, and other negative emotions.
– Flashbacks to the traumatic event
– Distressing dreams and other sleep problems
– Self blame regarding the traumatic event
Treating Trauma
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Cognitive Behavioural therapy (CBT) is a common and well supported treatment for trauma disorders. CBT works by identifying and challenging unhealthy thinking patterns that contribute to the symptoms of trauma. The benefits of CBT can be long lasting.
- Exposure Therapy – During exposure therapy, the patient is exposed to reminders of their trauma in a gradual and safe way. With enough exposure, the trauma beings to lose its emotional power, and the symptoms diminish. Exposure therapies have extensive research support.
- Medication – Medication may be used to manage the symptoms of trauma, such as anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Medication can be especially valuable when a person’s symptoms are so intense that they are unable to participate in psychotherapy.
- Other Treatments – Many other treatments, such as Narrative Exposure Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), and group therapy have all been found to be helpful for survivors of trauma. It’s always okay to ask your therapist what treatment they use.
Here’s another article on memory and trauma > https://empress2inspire.blog/2020/07/04/memory-and-trauma/
Reference : https://www.therapistaid.com/images/content/worksheet/what-is-trauma/preview.png
Be Inspired..!! 
Great reminder this piece really is… I’m one session away from finishing emdr
Due to prolonged over many years assaults and domestics and I needed this article to reminds me what it takes to face each head on however hard and it will be the hardest but the greatest as well thanks for this great share
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Trauma is a topic that people are not comfortable discussing.
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Yes and now out the other side of traumas being fixed I can
It severed my voice if I’m honest which may explain why few speak up about it and others struggle on their own.
All I know out of my story it may help one and that one is more than enough thanks again
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Be Brave Michelle.
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Would you consider some collaboration work??
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Sure what do you have in mind
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A mix of prose and poetry ??
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Prose can do 🙂
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I will try poetry ??
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Cool 😎
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Looking forward to email to set planning
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🙌🏼
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Did you get it?
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We can email and discuss further via email: myfanwy80@yahoo.com (spellchecks don’t like my pseudo name so beware 😉)
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You must already have my email in your inbox 😉
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good topic!
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Thank you Frank. Glad you liked the post
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This was really helpful 😊
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Most welcome!!
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Words can be a healing remedy to raise the vibration of our surroundings. It’s amazing how powerful our daily mantras can be. Unfortunately, some people remain comfortable in the only thing they’re familiar with, even if it’s toxic. Or they’re unaware of why they attract toxic people. We have to search for information so we can make sense out of these things. That way we can move better. My heart goes out to those still healing.
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The right words connect people. They heal. They cause positive change. … A person can be the most well-meaning but if they use the wrong words it can result in the exact opposite impact of what they were hoping to achieve.
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