Post 1: How does Trauma Begin?

Each of us have fear. A fear that makes us worries, cry, hysterical feelings, and the feeling that we can't do it on our own. Having fear is the possibility of having trauma. There are many reasons why does trauma begins in human life and why is it hard to recover from it.I'm very curious why trauma doesn't end, why is it hard to recover,how it affects our emotions and nervous system, and why children got trauma even though they're too young to have this or they're too young to understand the traumatic event that they've experience or saw. Having trauma is  like having a fear, not just a fear but a big fear that you can't overcome by your own. In this blog, we will know what's the deepest reason why people or children got trauma not just because of their experience in traumatic event but in other aspects and explanations. 

What is Trauma? The term trauma has been applied in so many context by so many people that it has lost some of it context by so many people that has lost some of its original meaning. According to my research that trauma is used to refer both to negative events that produce distress and to the distress itself. Basically trauma defined as highly stressful event.

Based on "What is Psychological Trauma" by Esther Giller in the website Sidran.Org . A traumatic event or situation creates Psychological trauma when it overwhelms the individual ability to cope and leaves that person fearing death annihilation, mutilation, or psychosis. The individual may feel emotionally, cognitively, and physically overwhelmed.

" The more you believe that you are endangered, the more traumatized you will be " stated by Esther Giller

Ms. Esther Giller has a point that the more you are scared the more you can't overcome your trauma because your not trying to overcome your fear and the more time you can't handle it the more your fear has deepen.

Traumatic event or stressful event such as accidents, natural disasters, crimes, surgeries, deaths, hearing bad news or events, and other violent events. It maybe repetitive experience such as child abuse, neglect, combat, urban violence, bullying, battering relationships, and many more. May you feel abuse of power, betrayal of trust, entrapment, helplessness, pain, confusion, and/or loss.

The earlier the trauma, the more impact of effect. The more it's hard to heal or overcome. It can affect you entire life cause your life are not moving, you just stuck up and you don't know how to start again without having trauma. Because you can't help yourself from this feelings. Even you can't ask help by your own because your scared. That's why it's very important to know the different aspects of having trauma especially children.

My observations to the traumatic people are: actually it's not observation but it is a question like why they can't handle that?, why they have fear about that?, and why they can't recover fast?. That the question in my mind about people who have trauma. I wanna know everything cause I'm curious. While on my experience: For living 17 years in the world I never experience yet that feeling or having a severe trauma. Maybe mild trauma only because of fear again. Like the recent happen in me, is I got sick for 2 days then when I realize that I was healed then I decided to go school tomorrow. I thought that I was totally healed but I'm wrong when class was done that was the start that my sick was return to my body so now I got trauma or I am afraid now because I have worries in my mind that what if in the middle of class my sick might back.. So now every time I go to school I always bring medicine. Because I don't want to get sick anymore inside school.

While researching the causes of trauma, I found an article entitled " Can a Difficult Birth Create Psychological Problems Later? " by Lorri Craig (the Psychologist) in the website Lorry Craig . It caught my attention because imagine difficult birth can affect personality of a child. Well, according to his/her article: Imagine being fetus. Imagine floating comfortably in the warm, soft, dark, fluid space of you mother's womb, during in and out of sleep, surrounded by muffled sound and heartbeats. Then imagine the sudden being shocked of being awakened, and pushed and squeezed into harsh, stark, noisy outside world, amid your mother's pained shrieks, racing heart, and adrenalin charged  system. And added distressed on the newborn infant being removed from mother for emergency treatment: the infant's or hers.

"As a clinician, whenever I am presented with a highly anxious, angry, op-positional child, I always ask the parents about the child's trauma history, including their birth experience, Actually I do this with my adult clients too" stated by Lorri Craig

In his/her article said that children who have experience traumatic birth are tend to be aggressive and anxious. It can affect their nervous system, which nervous system is the controller of our emotions and psychological behavior. And according to the "Open Source Cranio" article by Cranio Sacral Therapy Group in the website Cranio Sacral  that the first few minutes after birth is very important to the new born baby. The baby needs bond with its mother. If it is deprived that is contact it can cause lots of different conditions from low community to behavioral problems to fearful disposition.

There's many reason why people got trauma and one of the common reason is experiencing or witnessing traumatic events. But their is deepest reason why we got trauma and difficult birth is one of this. It is important to know other aspects of having trauma because it can lead us to start of healing process. It's unbelievable that difficult birth affect the person's personality. I think Obstetricians must be more sensitive not because new born babies are sensitive but in psychological effect of birth. Because if once person are on the outside world is the start of developing personality from his/her experience.