What is Emotional Trauma?

Today I decided to publish an Article about Emotional Trauma because it’s the worst thing anyone can go through. I am writing this post perhaps it’d make me feel better and I can get to heal as well.

Coping with the aftereffects of a traumatic experience can leave you struggling, gasping for breath as you try your hardest to cope with the emotions you’re unable to handle. You may be unable to relax, feeling as though danger is lurking around every corner, ready to lash out at you. It may be hard to connect to other people, you may be numbed to emotions and disconnected from others who can’t possibly relate to what you’ve gone through.

Emotional and psychological trauma is the result of exposure to extremely stressful events that decimate your sense of security and make you feel helpless and vulnerable. While traumatic events often involve a threat to safety and life, any situation in which you are left feeling alone and overwhelmed – even if the situation does not cause physical damage – can be traumatic. It’s important for trauma survivors to remember this simple truth: it’s not the objective facts of the event that matter; it’s your subjective emotional experience to the event. The more helpless and frightened the event left you, the more likely the event is to cause psychological and emotional trauma. It’s also important to remember that not all people react the same way, even when exposed to the same types of traumatic events.

Many individual will experience symptoms such as insomnia,nightmares,agitation,shock and hyper arousal after a traumatic event.These symptoms usually last between a few days and a few months as you learn to process the emotions surrounding the event. Some people, however, may find that instead of recovering from the trauma, their symptoms are so extreme that they end up disconnecting from others, unable to function in the world. It’s vital that people who have gone through a traumatic event seek treatment for their emotional trauma before the symptoms begin to slowly shrink the world in which you live.