Sometimes health problems can be traumatic, but unfortunate events while undergoing treatment, like a failed surgery or meeting Doctors that mistreat you, can also cause trauma. This kind of trauma can create a new set of problems that further increase pain and distress.
When we experience something deeply distressing or disturbing, it will affect both our mental and physical health. Yet, how can we deal with these kinds of experiences?
In this episode of the Health Mastery with Anna Podcast, Anna explains what medical trauma is and its impact on patients. She divulges on how trauma can affect our health and how our relationship with professional health workers, and medical trauma, is a blind spot in the medical community.
Anna also shares things you can do when you experience a re-triggering of medical trauma.
Notice that you’re triggered
Try focusing on feeling your feet
Tell yourself, “I am safe right now”
Shake your hands and arms
Unfocus your eyes
Take a slow, deep breath
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Join us as we revisit our trauma and try to overcome it!
Highlights:
(02:10) Medical Trauma in a Healthcare Setting
(05:41) Healing Unresolved Trauma From the Past
(07:40) The Kinds of Traumas We Experience
(13:35) What Are the Causes of Our Trauma?
(17:59) The Effects of Trauma at the Hand of Medical Professionals
(21:25) Empowering Yourself to Take Charge of Your Own Healing
(24:35) How to Overcome and Heal Trauma?
(33:26) Sharing Health Struggles With Compassion
(34:02) Things You Can Do to Regulate When You Experience a Re-Triggering of Medical Trauma
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The Body Keeps the Score - Book on how Trauma affects the body by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748