We all have experiences that create memories which are stored in various interconnecting regions of our brain as short-term or long-term memory. The more information is used or repeated, the more likely it is to be retained and stored in long term memory.
Psychological trauma can be defined as an experience or events that involve actual or threatened death, serious physical harm of self or to others. One of the most effective ways people often cope with an overwhelming event is dissociate from that event. It is a mental process that disrupts and disconnects the functions of identity, memory, thoughts, feelings and experiences.
There are varying degrees of trauma. Little trauma’s are events that you may not even remember or seem insignificant at the time. Then there are more complex traumas that result in significant emotional responses and thoughts that are triggered and compounded over time. The compounding of triggered responses often can impact upon a person’s ability to live a life free of fight, flight, freeze and faint responses such as anxiety and depression.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may develop after a person had been through an intense ordeal where physical harm or life or safety was threatened to themselves or others. As a result a person may have feelings of fear, helplessness, shame, terror, anger, anxieties, depression & other emotions associated with persistent frightening thoughts, memories and day/nightmares.
You can rewire your brain and body’s responses to take back control and live life as you deserve to live it … happy and fulfilled.