Trauma: what it is and how to break the chains that prevent us from living better

It is quite intuitive to understand how destabilizing, and disabling, it can be for a person to live every day under the effect of the emotional activation felt during one or more traumatic events.

In summary: that experience is never over, and it will not end until interventions aimed at resolving the trauma are implemented ».

How to recognize that we have suffered a trauma? What symptoms can it give on a psychological level?
“Discomfort can come in the form of neurobiological alterations such as negative emotions, nightmares, flashbacks, difficulty concentrating and memory problems, intrusive thoughts up to real dissociative experiences, but also anxiety, insomnia, depression, panic or anger attacks, alterations in the sleep-wake cycle, disorders of the eating, relational and sexual spheres, often combined with each other.

These are symptoms that undermine everyday life and prevent you from having a balanced perception of yourself and regulated and satisfying affective and social relationships.

Often the most marked signals are also accompanied by a generic e prolonged malaise the cause of which it is not possible to identify, sometimes they appear physical ailments which do not find an explanation and confirmation from a purely medical point of view since the origin is to be found, rather, in the deep bidirectional relationship between mind and body.

Not only that, often traumatized people they are blamed for the symptoms they manifest, because others do not recognize them and do not understand their origins. From aggressive behaviors, to avoidance to eating disorders, to lack of concentration, all manifestations of dysregulation produce distancing from others. This worsens the situation, fueling a vicious circle. This is why we want to work for a company trauma-informed, a community that has awareness and ability to recognize the alarm bells “.

What consequences can a neglected trauma leave?
“Failure to process traumatic events can manifest itself at any age, in different ways, and can lead to the appearance of conditions such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and complex trauma.
It is estimated that one or more traumatic experiences, particularly if it comes to Adverse Childhood Experiences (adverse childhood experiences), may involve up to twenty years of reduction in life expectancy.

The consequences, as the case may be, may also include addictions and substance abuse (whose role is a desperate attempt to stop suffering due to emotional dysregulation), eating disorders, personality disorders, aggression and antisocial behaviors, suicidal ideation, but also organic diseases of various kinds (for example, hypertension, diabetes, collapse of the immune defenses, autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, oncological diseases). All these problems, in addition to the heavy individual impact, also have a huge impact in terms of social costs and repercussions on the health system.