The 3 Areas of Trauma Resilience Most Often Discussed by Trauma Experts
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Trauma Resilience, or TR, is defined as a person's ability to survive and recover from traumatic events. Traumatic events include natural, human-caused, and unnatural disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, terrorism, and vehicle accidents. These events cause physical injury, emotional stress, and mental stress.
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Trauma Resilience can be broken down into three areas: physical, emotional, and mental. Physical is the ability to handle the situation physically. Emotional trauma and mental trauma are related but are different in ways that the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Physical trauma is often the first type of trauma experienced in a person who has not been exposed to trauma before, and therefore the person may be overwhelmed with emotional and/or physical stress and may have difficulty managing the situation emotionally or physically.
Emotional trauma, on the other hand, is the result of the fact that there was a traumatic event that caused a person to experience a wide range of symptoms including guilt, fear, anger, depression, anxiety, and stress. Emotional trauma occurs when a person has an overwhelming amount of feelings such as sadness, anger, worry, guilt, or fear. This feeling may also occur without reason or without a person's awareness of why they feel this way. Mental trauma is also an extreme form of physical trauma because it involves problems with thinking, reasoning, memory, and judgment, and it may interfere with a person's ability to function properly. Some examples of mental trauma include post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or alcohol addiction.
One of the most important aspects of Trauma Resilience is the ability to survive a traumatic event. It is important for survivors of any trauma to be able to live life as normally as possible. They must be able to do so even though they are experiencing various symptoms. For example, they may feel sick, have stomach cramps, vomit, feel numb, or experience dizziness or headaches. It is important to note that some symptoms of PTSD include being unable to sleep, nightmares, flashbacks, or flashbacks and nightmares that may occur repeatedly.
Trauma Resilience also involves the development of self-awareness, or the ability to notice symptoms, develop the ability to identify them, and learn coping mechanisms for dealing with them. This is important because one of the greatest challenges of surviving a traumatic event is dealing with the symptoms of the trauma. As a survivor, you must learn how to recognize the symptoms and how to handle them so that your life is as normal as possible.
Traumatic events are unique and terrifying and their impact on a person's life cannot be overemphasized. However, even though trauma survivors face the challenges of dealing with the aftermath of a traumatic event, many people who suffer a traumatic event find themselves improving over time, especially with professional help.