Hello Everyone & Welcome Back to the RealPositiveGirl Podcast!
Thank you so much for joining me again!
Happy Wednesday!
This week's theme for the podcast is: Trauma
This week we are going to speak about trauma. I thought it would be helpful to go over how it can manifest in our lives, what can cause traumatic events to affect us so badly & what we should do to recover properly.
Here are some notes from today's episode:
- Today I want to go over what the side effects of childhood trauma are, other ways traumas during that time can affect us & how to move forward from those struggles.
- Experiences like physical & sexual abuse are clearly traumatic events, but also are car accidents, natural distasters & deaths. Even just ongoing stress & anxiety of feeling unsafe can be considered trauma. And as you can tell, the trauma doesn’t have to happen directly to you, but even just in your environment for you to be exposed to the experience.
- And sometimes children that go through traumatic events will be able to recover easier & quicker than others & move on without any lingering symptoms. But others can have ptsd after the fact & find themself replaying the event in their mind & making huge efforts to avoid anything that reminds them of what happened.
- With ptsd comes other behavioral issues, but even without ptsd, the child can have lingering behavioral problems following the experience.
- Let’s talk about the symptoms of unresolved childhood trauma next.
- A few of the big ones are recurring nightmares, depression, attachment & intimacy problems, avoiding emotions, alcohol & drug dependencies, low self-esteem, self-hatred & anxiety/panic attacks.
- In addition to these symptoms, here are some emotional side effects that could happen due to childhood trauma.
- You might pretend to be someone else & a perfect picture of someone to love & care for if you didn’t receive that as a child. You bury your feelings & put a false identity to get the love & care you crave but also lose who you truly are in the process.
- You have that constant victim mentality. Instead of feeling like a victim, consider yourself a survivor.
- You could become ultra passive-aggressive if you were taught & observed that anger was not an emotion you were allowed to show or share.
- Now let’s end this episode briefly talking about healing from childhood traumas.
- Learn how to self-regulate & manage stress better. Stress can easily lead you back into old coping mechanisms that were formed during your traumatic experiences as a child. You need to take the initiative to learn better ways to manage & handle stressful situations. Even something as simple as meditation can help a lot.
- Getting help from a professional is always a great idea.
- Let yourself trust people again. Don’t isolate because of your past experiences. Learn to trust again & form those types of relationships.
- Be honest with yourself on whether your current methods of dealing with your past pain is working or not.
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