How To Treat Psychological Trauma

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Trauma is the outcome of overwhelmingly stressful events and occurrences that shatter your inner being and leave you with haunting memories. It threats your sense of safety and security, makes you feel lonely and helpless. Any event that does not harm you physically but leaves you frightened mentally is traumatic.

Traumatic experiences involve betrayal, physical abuse, verbal abuse or sexual abuse and a major loss. Life-threatening catastrophe, natural calamities, death of near and dear ones or dissatisfaction with life can be traumatizing. In brief, events that cause trauma in most cases are as follows:

- House fire
- Violent crime
- Plane crash
- Earthquake
- Flood
- Emotional distress
- Life-taking disease
- Chronic abuse
- Relentless stress and depression
- Bloodshed and suffering in a war        

Different Types of Trauma:

- Physical trauma
- Penetrating trauma
- Blunt force trauma
- Psychological trauma
- Post-cult trauma
- Childhood trauma  

Signs and Symptoms of Trauma  

Signs and symptoms of trauma that surface as the body endeavors to regulate the pent-up energy are:

- Trembling
- Crying
- Shaking
- Sweating
- Laughing
- Breathing deeply

Psychological Trauma Treatment options

You should resolve to face the unbearable memories and feelings that you have till now avoided in order to escape the fits of trauma. It is cowardice to flinch from facing up to the heart-rending experiences and painful memories.  Facing with boldness what you fear most is what strengthens and soothes your mind. It lifts off the load of troubled emotions and thoughts that lie as heavy as lid on your mind. It is a nicer and more effective option to heal from emotional and psychological traumas.       

It can be painful and scary to work through trauma. It is potentially re-traumatizing to treat a trauma. You should consult a trauma specialist to avoid the possibility of re-traumatization. It is done in the following two ways:   

- Processing the traumatic memory
- Discharging pent-up energy
   
Processing the Traumatic Memory: Traumatic memories are different from ordinary memories. Extreme stress on the mind is a curb on the functionality of the brain to integrate your experiences into an ordered and coherent memory. However, trauma prevents the brain from integrating experiences and processing memories. 

This is an effective way to relive traumatic memories rather than simply remember them. They may be split-off fragments like bodily sensations, raw emotions, frightening images, physical pain, sounds and smells that you will feel as real as you had felt during the trauma. The memory of the trauma is processed by the reconnection of these fragments.   

Discharging Fight-Or-Flight Energy: When you confront a threat, your body at once prepares itself for an emergency action in a biological process that is the “fight-or-flight” response. This biological process is automatic. The fight-or-flight response strengthens you with extra energy to escape or flight the threat of the trauma.

Trauma Treatment Therapy for Psychological Trauma

Somatic therapy uses the body’s own healing capacity to heal the trauma. The focus of this trauma treatment are the bodily sensations not thoughts or memories of the event that has caused the trauma. Concentration on the bodily sensations helps you release trauma-related tension and energy through shaking or crying.

How Bolton Wellbeing Clinic helps

David R Behan’s Bolton Wellbeing Clinic at 10 Harley Street in Bolton is a world famous centre of trauma treatment. David R Behan is a certified and experienced consultant and therapist, practitioner and trainer in the treatment of psychological trauma. You can reap a heap of benefits from trauma treatment under the care of David R Behan.   
 

 

 

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