Understanding Physical and Emotional Trauma

Date: 2008-11-19 17:01:00

By Shawn Wilson

Emotional trauma occurs to everyone however not everyone reacts to trauma the same way. A trauma is something that can occur as an injury such as a sporting injury like a concussion, or an emotional trauma, such as the loss of a loved one, separation or divorce.

Many people react differently and will try to combat it in different ways. The one thing that remains the same is the feeling from the emotion that it precipitates. Everyone will feel pain if they hurt their foot, however, people will have a different threshold to pain and will experience different intensities.

An emotional trauma or hurt can be for a long duration or can last for a very short time, it all depends how equipped the individual is to handle the nature of the trauma they have sustained. Do they have a sufficient and appropriate support group, family and friends to help them? Many factors come into play here but it is essential that an individual feel nurtured and taken care of during times of stress and trauma.

Trauma will always provide a 'shock' to the system and it is this shock that needs to be obliterated from the system in order that it does not linger and eventually cause further states of disease within the person, such as a chronic depression or chronic headaches after a concussion.

Many forms of treatment include suppressive medicines, which initially help to calm down the nervous system and reduce swelling. Once a sufficient amount of control over the trauma has been gained, it would be appropriate to then commence a natural form of therapy in order to ensure that the trauma has been healed and will not linger within the individual's state of mind or physical body.

Drugs such as anti-depressants, although at times necessary, do not determine the root cause of the problem and only masks the intensity of emotions that an individual can be experiencing. Many types of these drugs can be addictive and habit forming. Individuals feel 'lost' without their medication and really never do heal the issues at hand.

The difficulty lies in being able to help an individual through a difficult time and then help to maintain a healthy state of balance without addictive and habit forming drugs whether it be for mental or physical pain.

Studies show that healing the 'trauma' of the wound: i.e. fright, anger, sadness through cognitive therapy, nurture and support quickly reduces the intensity and duration of the trauma. Again, every individual will require different techniques and require different lengths of time for their therapy before they are well again.

In many cases, one trauma is only there as a cover up of a deeper, older and more significant trauma experienced during childhood such as abandonment, death of a parent, sexual or physical abuse.

This is well understood and acknowledged within the psychoanalytic community to understand the intricacies and importance of proper psychotherapy for individuals experiencing trauma.

Therefore, any trauma mild or severe, should be taken very seriously and ensure that proper rest, medicine and therapy are provided for in order to allow an individual's complete recovery.


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This article was written by Shawn Wilson, a member of the customer support team at Datepad, where internet dating is always free. Datepad has a massive directory of informative dating articles along with a great list of dating site reviews on their dating blog.. This articles came from MoreArticles.net.


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