When you suffer from trauma, it’s often helpful for you when you can understand why you respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. For many trauma victims, their brains interpret dangerous situations, or what they perceive to be dangerous situations in entirely different ways than others do. The questions are:   What exactly happens [...]

  Many traumatic experiences occur in childhood. It’s very common for a child to experience something when he’s young only to have it leave a lasting, traumatic effect on him for the rest of his life. These experiences can be major, such as a severe physically abusive relationship with a parent, or they can be [...]

  If you’re a victim of trauma, you may have noticed that one of the things you experience from time to time is the inability to speak. This probably happens whenever you come across something that triggers a flashback. Your body responds by eliciting a type of panic response and you immediately experience physical symptoms [...]

  In continuing to understand trauma and how it affects someone who has undergone a traumatic event in his or her life, it’s important to consider the brain’s physiological response and how that can affect a person’s emotional state.   Time is not a Factor   Trauma, when it is left untreated, has no regard [...]

In previous posts, we worked on forming an understanding about what trauma is and how it can affect your day-to-day life. Whether the event that caused the trauma was a major one or a minor one, the trauma itself is not limited to that event alone. It’s actually the impression or the imprint that has [...]

  For a person who is suffering from trauma, it is an everyday ordeal that never seems to go away. It affects them, but it also affects the people who love them the most. It can be difficult to understand trauma when you’re the victim, and understanding it as the loved one of a victim [...]

  In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at the reality of numbing.   Numbing   If you’ve experienced a traumatic event, you might have noticed how you find it difficult to connect emotionally with others. You want to feel a deep connection with your family. You want to feel love for [...]

  Severe, life-altering situations often result in a person experiencing trauma after the situation or event has taken place. However, while trauma is often thought of as something physical that occurs to someone, it can also be experienced through events such as finding out your parents are getting a divorce when you’re young, or getting [...]