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Trauma
adults only
Does is feel like life is hard to handle and you don't know why? It could be that you've suffered some events that were traumatic to your entire being and you are now experiencing the affects of that trauma.
Trauma is an unwanted event(s) that inspires fear, helplessness, confusion, or hopelessness and tends to overwhelm our usual coping skills.
Trauma causes the brain to go into crisis; consequently, the brain and nervous system continue to try and make sense of things long after the original event(s) that took place. This may cause symptoms like intrusive thoughts or feelings, avoidance, arousal, and dissociation.
Most people who suffer from trauma, dissociation, and mood dysregulation have experienced one or more of the following:
Trauma is an unwanted event(s) that inspires fear, helplessness, confusion, or hopelessness and tends to overwhelm our usual coping skills.
Trauma causes the brain to go into crisis; consequently, the brain and nervous system continue to try and make sense of things long after the original event(s) that took place. This may cause symptoms like intrusive thoughts or feelings, avoidance, arousal, and dissociation.
Most people who suffer from trauma, dissociation, and mood dysregulation have experienced one or more of the following:
- birth trauma
- insufficient nurture as infant
- parent-child role reversal
- abandonment/commitment to institution
- chronic illness that left a child isolated or with a gap in social development
- childhood mental, physical, or sexual abuse
- observing or being exposed to disturbing or traumatic events
- chronic bullying, shaming, criticism, or humiliation at home, school, and in the work place
- childhood or adolescent mental, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
- natural disasters
- lack of bonding and attachment
- hospitalizations for acute or chronic injuries or illnesses
- acrimonious divorce/child custody
- assault, burglary, other violent crime
- loss of loved ones/infant death
- loss of employment, status, identity
- injuries
- surgery
- rape
- combat
- jail/prison
- industrial accidents