While all Traumas are different, the systematic approach to healing is the same. There are MANY TRAUMAS, ONE CURE, EMPATHY HEALS.
Traumas come in many forms, and people experience them in many ways. Immediately after the event, shock and denial are typical; often people block out or avoid thinking about the experience(s). Longer term reactions include unpredictable emotions, flashbacks, strained relationships and even physical symptoms like headaches or nausea. While these feelings are common after traumatic experiences, people often do not even realize they have experienced something traumatic, therefore they may not associate these symptoms with the event.
EXAMPLES OF TRAUMA
Natural and man-made disasters
Sexual Abuse
Physical Abuse
Domestic Violence
Bullying
Medical Injury, illness, or procedures
Community violence
Forced displacement
Neglect, deprivation and maltreatment
Traumatic separation, grief and/or death
Victim of crime
Kidnapping
Motor Vehicle Accidents
School violence
Witnessing violence, death and destruction, including suicide/homicide
Racism, racial trauma
War, Terrorism, or Political Violence
UNDERSTANDING HOW TRAUMA AFFECTS US.
- Individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or threatening and that can have lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and physical, social, emotional well-being.
SYMPTOMS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA
We all react to trauma in different ways, experiencing a wide range of physical and emotional reactions. There is no “right” or “wrong” way to think, feel, or respond, so don’t judge your own reactions or those of other people. Your responses are NORMAL reactions to ABNORMAL events.
