WHAT IS TRAUMA
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We have all felt lost at one time or another due to a broken heart, traumatic event, death, divorce, or something.
This is often accompanied by physical complaints, such as depression and migraines, sleep disorders, addictions, unexplained pain in the body.
The body is the guardian of our truth.
In general, trauma can be defined as a psychological, emotional response to a traumatic event or experience that is deeply painful or distressing.
Trauma is a blockage that has arisen in your body as a result of a violent event. When you experience something that is too intense to process in one go, part of the energy stays behind in the body.
This energy restricts the flow of your life energy and ensures that your psychological wound hinders you in daily life.
Trauma can be the result of things such as birth trauma, undergoing surgery, illness, being involved in a car accident, experiencing a major event, death of a loved one, neglect, rape, psychological or sexual abuse, or being the victim of a crime.
Traumatic complaints can also arise after a penetrating experience or a long period of great stress. Examples of this can be: a burglary, dismissal, divorce or hospitalization or corona
Events with a slower course, or that have happened longer, can also cause trauma symptoms. Think of a bad relationship that lasted for years in which you felt trapped, a lack of loving upbringing, abuse, bullying.
It does not matter whether the tension has arisen recently or in the past. Sometimes one specific event can be identified, sometimes it is an accumulation of different traumatic moments in your life.
But whatever the trauma it is, in all cases there is negative energy left in your body that causes a blockage or limitation.
You suffered a psychological wound that did not receive the attention it needed. And if you keep going too long with it, it can turn into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
The pain is suppressed instead of processed and that can lead to complaints such as insomnia, anxiety, irritability, anger outbursts or concentration problems.
After a trauma you are continuously 'on'. Confidence in your own body is hard to find. You often feel unsafe and overreact to normal situations. These complaints can ensure that you no longer function or function properly in society.
Trauma symptoms.
Often shock and denial are typical reactions to a traumatic event. Over time, these emotional responses may fade, but a survivor may also experience long-term responses.
The consequences sometimes only become apparent much later. They can then cause many physical, emotional and mental complaints.
How do I recognize a trauma?
The most common features of Trauma or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are:
Relives:
When you relive it, it seems as if you are experiencing the traumatic event again. You suffer from flashbacks: you see, smell, hear, taste and feel everything again as when it happened.
When you think about the event, you get palpitations, you start shaking and sweating and you can no longer breathe properly. You feel paralyzed with fear.
You have nightmares or scary dreams and you sleep restlessly.
Avoid:
You avoid situations that remind you of the traumatic experience. This way you protect yourself against the intense emotions. You 'forget' the whole event or certain moments of it. This is called displacement.
Sometimes you feel nothing at all and do everything on autopilot.
You deny what happened and run away from it by, for example, working hard or drinking a lot (become addicted because you don't want to feel the pain body).
You don't want to talk about what happened and close yourself off from the people around you.
Increased vigilance:
You are always on edge, startle quickly
You feel constantly tense and "wrought up"
You quickly lose your temper and are easily angry
You suffer from sudden crying spells
You no longer enjoy anything, you are very gloomy and exhausted
You look for dangerous situations; for example you are going to drive way too fast
You become addicted or use (narcotic) substances such as porn, sex, drugs, food, alcohol etc...
You feel guilty about what happened and you blame yourself: 'I wish I hadn't…'
The most common complaints / feelings below
Trauma symptoms.
Often shock and denial are typical reactions to a traumatic event. Over time, these emotional responses may fade, but a survivor may also experience long-term responses.
The consequences sometimes only become apparent much later. They can then cause many physical, emotional and mental complaints.
Examples are:
• Anger
• Persistent feelings of sadness and despair
• Flashbacks
• Unpredictable emotions
• Continued Alertness
• Physical symptoms, such as nausea and headache
• Intense guilt
• Feeling of shame
• Fear of losing control
• Feelings of isolation and hopelessness
• Emotions not feeling well and leaving easily (dissociation).
• Muscle tension, lack of muscle strength
• Little grounding and flow of energy in your body
• Tiredness, poor sleep
• Approaching life predominantly in an analytical and rational way, whereby you feel your body less and spend a lot of time in your head
• The feeling of always being alert and on guard
• Highly sensitive: difficult to filter stimuli and impressions
• Difficulty with boundaries me-and the other
• Palpitations
• Shallow breathing
• Loss of strength in muscles
• Excessive tension or irritability
• Difficulty being able to really connect with others, you are not living fully
• Having a short fuse, easily irritated, agitated and hot-tempered
• Physical complaints that do not go away