What is psychological trauma?

Psychological trauma causes emotional injury to the mind resulting from a traumatic event that can occur in a single moment or for a long time. This may result in post -traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which worsens the ability of a person to cope with stress. Psychological trauma is treated with psychotherapy or call therapy and sometimes medicines.

A psychologically traumatic event is one that impresses the ability of a person emotionally to control it and often leaves a person who feels extremely uncertain, betrayal or disillusioned. Common examples are abuse of any kind, domestic violence or abuse of addictive substances of a loved person, combat experience, natural disasters, accidents or medical emergencies, the death of a loved man and long -term poverty. Whether any event is caused by psychological trauma partly depends on the person who experiences it. What one person experiences as traumatic may not be for another person.

Symptoms of PsychologiThey also differ in patients. Some possible symptoms are again experiencing an event in the mind and body, sometimes through flashbacks or nightmares, suppress memories of the event, intense anger or sadness, emotional separation or flattened influences, low self -esteem, insomnia and panic attacks. Symptoms may be caused by triggers that resemble a suffering traumatic event, though not consciously. Symptoms indicate the continuing difficulty of the patient to solve trauma. Suffering can turn to drugs or alcohol to suppress the emotions associated with a traumatic event and often have difficulty managing or controlling their emotions from day to day.

Psychotherapists identify three methods of managing psychological trauma: passive, reactive and proactive. Proactive reaction is an attempt to confront and repair the source of trauma to minimize psychological details. A reactive response occurs after a traumatic event has taken place and is to minimize or fix the resulté damage. Passive reaction is an attempt to ignore the source of trauma or minimize the emotional reaction to it. Reactive reactions are more often than proactive, which causes psychological trauma and passive reaction is most likely to cause permanent traumatic effects.

While three different ways of coping with psychological trauma are all natural reactions, a patient who tends to react reactively or passively can work more actively with solving potential stressors. Patients can also work on the recovery of psychological trauma themselves intentionally revising the traumatic event in a safe environment, such as the therapist. This may be simply talking about the event, playing roles or the therapy of the body mind, such as desensitization and overwork of the eyes and overworking (EMDR), somatic experience or sensorimotor psychotherapy.