Problem Trauma and Abuse
Trauma and Abuse
Symptoms Can Appear Years later Trauma is any experience with a negative impact. It can vary from being chosen last for a school team to a house fire or a divorce. How a person experiences the event and what they say to themselves about it, can have long term emotional effects. Abuse is a type of trauma which is experienced physically, emotionally, sexually, intellectually, spiritually or in any combination.
When people are traumatized, whether the trauma happens in childhood or as an adult, the pain remains within them until they are taught how to release it in a safe and healthy way. Feelings from the trauma can cause dissociation, flashbacks, nightmares, and addictive behaviors (employed to mask emotional pain). Emotional numbness and sleep disturbances are also common symptoms along with depression, anxiety and irritability.
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) symptoms appear almost immediately after the trauma or abuse. They include numbness, difficulty responding to normal life events, and difficulty with anger and suspicion. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can appear as a response to trauma or abuse anywhere from one month to years or decades after the experience.
When people are traumatized, whether the trauma happens in childhood or as an adult, the pain remains within them until they are taught how to release it in a safe and healthy way. Feelings from the trauma can cause dissociation, flashbacks, nightmares, and addictive behaviors (employed to mask emotional pain). Emotional numbness and sleep disturbances are also common symptoms along with depression, anxiety and irritability.
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) symptoms appear almost immediately after the trauma or abuse. They include numbness, difficulty responding to normal life events, and difficulty with anger and suspicion. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can appear as a response to trauma or abuse anywhere from one month to years or decades after the experience.