Here's how trauma impacts your body, your brain and your energy

Here's how trauma impacts your body, your brain and your energy

Although trauma is a normal response to a horrible event, its effects can be so severe that it impairs a person's ability to lead a normal life. In such a case, help may be needed to treat the stress and dysfunction caused by the traumatic event and to restore the emotional well-being of the person. So, how do trauma affect people?

What is trauma?
Emotional trauma is defined by the American Psychological Association (APA) as a person's emotional response to an extremely negative event ranging from divorce, illness, accident, and mourning to extreme experiences of war, torture, rape, and crime. . Traumatic experiences often involve a threat to life or safety, but any situation that leaves you overwhelmed and isolated can lead to trauma, even if it does not involve physical harm.

Trauma changes your body
If you suffer trauma-related injuries, these injuries can constantly remind you of what you have experienced. But even if you do not suffer any physical injury, trauma can change your body. According to one study, trauma victims are more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease, chronic pain and many other conditions. Another study published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry even suggests that trauma is associated with premature aging, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. Dealing with the psychological pain of a trauma can help you reverse its physical effects.


Trauma changes your brain
The psychological effects of trauma are more than just the product of emotional pain. And they are far from being a choice. Trauma changes how your brain works, changes neurotransmitter levels, and changes the way your mind processes information. This can make you more vulnerable to other mental health problems, and create a vicious circle in which you progressively visualize more experiences through the trauma.



Trauma causes more trauma
People who have had a traumatic experience are more vulnerable to future trauma. They can react poorly to the stressful events of their lives or even let their trauma control their behavior, putting them at risk. For example, living in a toxic relationship can alter perceptions of what healthy relationships look like, thus subjecting a victim to more abuse. This growing vulnerability to trauma after a traumatic experience makes it clear that treating trauma does not just improve life, it can actually save lives.

How to treat a trauma?
Given the unpredictable and almost random nature of trauma, it is simply not possible to take a single approach to recovery. Each patient will arrive at treatment with not only different physical needs, but also a unique perspective, background, and set of assumptions that will dictate the individual's approach to successful rehabilitation.

Surviving a trauma
· Talk about what happened to someone you trust.

· Talk to family and friends Support and understanding at a difficult time can be very helpful. You do not have to deal with it alone.

· Know that the way you feel is very normal for someone who has experienced a traumatic event.

· Accept the fact that it may take a little while. Know that the way you feel will not last and that by managing your fears and thoughts, you will be able to live your life. Be kind and patient with yourself.

· Take your time: relax, go for walks, visit beautiful places, see friends. Plan to do beautiful things every day.

· It will be important to deal with situations associated with the traumatic event ... but do it gradually. You can decide to go back to work, but start with a few hours first, then increase them gradually.

Do not fall into drugs or alcohol to cope with your situation. They will only make things worse. Try to find other ways to relax.