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Let's look at different types of trauma to understand better how these distressing events affect someones life.
ACUTE TRAUMA:
Trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event. After any distressing event, the mind and body go into shock and then might struggle to move on from the emotions that one is feeling in regards to that event.
Acute trauma often presents in symptoms such as:
Excessive anxiety or panic attacks
Irritation
Confusion
Inability to have a restful, deep sleep
Feeling of disconnection from the surroundings
Unreasonable lack of trust
Inability to focus on work or studies
Lack of self-care or grooming
Aggressive behaviour
Self-harm
Drawing back from people and life in general
Unfortunately, there is no time frame to how long trauma will affect someones live.
There is also no set way how trauma is playing out in someones life as everyone deals with the emotions and stress differently.
Some causes of acute trauma could include:
Being physically injured
Being mentally or physically unwell
Seeing another person hurt, ill, or pass away
Living through a dangerous experience
Feeling helpless
Experiencing extreme fear or horror
Experiencing the loss of something important to you
Accidents
Natural disasters
Illness or health-related problems
Mental illness
Death
Bullying
Violence
Physical abuse
Sexual abuse
Terrorism
Surgery
Childbirth
CHRONIC TRAUMA:
Ongoing trauma arises when someone experiences distressing events on several occasions.
The symptoms of chronic trauma often appear after a long time, even years after the event. The symptoms are deeply distressing and may manifest as labile or unpredictable emotional outbursts, anxiety, extreme anger, flashbacks, fatigue, body aches, migraines, and nausea.
These individuals may have trust issues, and hence, they do not have stable relationships or jobs.
Chronic trauma is often rooted in childhood.
Children have no chance to escape those situations and are often stuck in the emotional stress those traumatic events cause.
Some causes of chronic trauma could include:
abuse and neglect
bullying at school or workplace
narcissistic relationships
ongoing physical abuse
ongoing emotional abuse
repeated sexual abuse
domestic violence
illness
war
prison
These are only a few examples. I can only just imagine how someone must feel when having to endure those distressing events for a longer period.
It must be absolutely horrible!
COMPLEX TRAUMA
Complex trauma is the result of multiple single and ongoing traumatic events in a persons life. We call this C-PTSD.
Complex trauma is not always the result of childhood trauma. It can also occur as a result of adults’ experience of violence in the home, family, neighbourhood and workplace. It can be physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, financial or spiritual.
usually occurs between people
can occur when you experience repeated trauma as a child, young person or adult
often involves ‘being or feeling’ trapped
is often planned, extreme, ongoing and/or repeated
often has impacts which can last a long time
can cause you to feel ashamed
can stop you feeling safe and being able to trust
can make you feel bad about yourself
can make it hard for you to manage your feelings
can mean that you use different coping strategies such as alcohol and drugs, self-harm, over- or under-eating or over-working
can affect your physical and mental health and your wellbeing
can affect your relationships and your ability to manage your daily life
THE GOOD NEWS:
People can and do recover from trauma and its effects.
And the good news is that it is never too late.
We know this from the research, and we also know this because survivors’ stories tell us this too. This does not mean that it is easy or that we can simple, but it does mean that there is hope for healing and recovery.
TRTP™ is addressing the trauma where it sits >> in the Subconscious.
Follow for more in my next blog, where I explain a bit more how TRTP works and how will help to overcome trauma.
Debbie Wullschleger from Kairos Coaching
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