What is TRAUMA?
Trauma can be caused by an overwhelmingly negative event that causes a lasting impact on the victim’s mental and emotional stability. For some people trauma can feel like frightening and scary experience. It's the time where they feel out of control from their body and feel disconnected from their mind and body. Both adults and children experience trauma. Trauma can be caused by experiencing :
1) Abuse ( physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, and neglect)
2) Rape
3) Being Bullied
4) Domestic Violence
5) Immigration
6) Illness
7) Natural Disaster
8) Medical Condition
9) Death in the family
10) living in unsafe neighborhood
Signs of trauma:
Flashback
Irritability
Mood swings
Feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness
Suicide ideation or attempts
Self harm behaviors
Confusion
Dissociation
Sleep problems
Anger
Difficulty concentration
Feeling of numbness
Guilt
Shame
Physical pain ( headache, stomach)
Trauma can be caused by an overwhelmingly negative event that causes a lasting impact on the victim’s mental and emotional stability. For some people trauma can feel like frightening and scary experience. It's the time where they feel out of control from their body and feel disconnected from their mind and body. Both adults and children experience trauma. Trauma can be caused by experiencing :
1) Abuse ( physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, and neglect)
2) Rape
3) Being Bullied
4) Domestic Violence
5) Immigration
6) Illness
7) Natural Disaster
8) Medical Condition
9) Death in the family
10) living in unsafe neighborhood
Signs of trauma:
Flashback
Irritability
Mood swings
Feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness
Suicide ideation or attempts
Self harm behaviors
Confusion
Dissociation
Sleep problems
Anger
Difficulty concentration
Feeling of numbness
Guilt
Shame
Physical pain ( headache, stomach)