Trauma
Trauma can be understood as a response to an event or situation that was extremely disturbing and overwhelming for a person and it affected their coping ability, decreased their sense of self, self-esteem, etc., and brought up a bunch of emotions for them. The event that causes trauma is often very sudden and feels like a threat to one’s life and well-being.
Trauma can be experienced by a person by any event in their life, it can be an accident they witnessed, loss of a parent, experiencing abuse, working in extreme conditions like being deployed overseas, military combat, assault of any form, grief, etc.
Symptoms
Symptoms of Trauma
Therapy
Exposure therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Hypnotherapy
How are you feeling today ?
You can ask these questions to yourself and if you say “Yes” to most of these, you should seek the expertise of a mental health professional and navigate through your symptoms and concerns with psychotherapy and medication, if needed.
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Have you been through a traumatic event or experience?
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Do you often have flashbacks and nightmares related to the event?
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Do you often find yourself avoiding people?
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Do you often feel that you are responsible for whatever happened?
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Do you have a difficult time remembering certain things about the event?
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Do you feel you are always on the edge?
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Do you get startled easily?
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Do you turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with what you are going through?
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Have you been going through these feelings for a long time?
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