Are you going through an Emotional Trauma ?

What does Trauma mean?

Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved with that experience.

Trauma may result from a single distressing experience or recurring events of being overwhelmed that can be precipitated in weeks, years, or even decades as the person struggles to cope with the immediate circumstances, eventually leading to serious, long-term negative consequences.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) defines trauma as direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury; threat to one’s physical integrity, witnessing an event that involves the above experience, learning about unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death, or injury experienced by a family member or close associate. 

Memories associated with trauma are implicit, pre-verbal and cannot be recalled, but can be triggered by stimuli from the environment.

The person’s response to aversive details of traumatic event involves intense fear, helplessness and horror. 

In children it is manifested as disorganised or agitative behaviours.