Trauma has many direct effects of the mind and the body. There are effects on the structures of the brain, hormones, and neurotransmitters especially in those with chronic and/or childhood trauma, that can be seen and measured. Including the work done in the ACE studies. However, many symptoms often get dismissed as being “all in your head”, and we will talk about some of those symptoms here.
Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain power and control over another intimate partner. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, psychological, or technological actions or threats of actions or other patterns of coercive behavior that influence another person within an intimate partner relationship. This includes any behaviors that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, frighten, terrorize, coerce, threaten, blame, hurt, injure, or wound someone.(US Department of Justice)
The trauma responses are neurophysiological; they are not bad or good. They happen without us choosing what to do. These responses help us survive. Healthy activation of these stress response systems is predictable, moderate and controllable. (Gobbel, 2023). When it's not it dysregulates us and can cause trauma
Panic attacks are episodes of severe overwhelming fear. Symptoms develop fast and reach their peak within 10 minutes. They rarely last more than an hour, typically lasting for 20 to 30 minutes.
It's really common to feel very confused and unsure about where we can start in our healing journey. Intense emotions of any kind make it hard to even know what we can or should do to begin. Everyone's healing journey and what's right for them is going to be hard. But some of what is … Continue reading Ideas To Begin Trauma Healing
An emotional flashback is when we are triggered into living in the emotional/psychological state we experienced during our traumatic childhood experiences.
Child abusers exist across races and gender. Understanding what is behind sexual abuse can help us more effectively prevent sexual violence. As well as just give victims power and understand what their abuser was doing.
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, cognitively and emotionally disruptive thoughts. These thoughts are characteristic of anxiety disorders and obsessive-compulsive class disorders. They are also found in mood, eating, trauma & addiction disorders. Intrusive thoughts are usually thoughts about actions, scenarios or fears the person finds upsetting and often taboo in their culture. Common topics include inappropriate … Continue reading Symptom Explainer: Intrusive Thoughts
OCD is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by intrusive and uncontrollable obsessions and compulsions.
The essence of trauma is the responses to the event when our brain and body's window of tolerance is overwhelmed.
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