Post 4: Symptoms of Trauma

It's important to know different symptoms of trauma, because it's hard to talk about your experience and you can't ask the traumatic person of what is her fear or do you have any experience a traumatic event because if you'll ask her she will be scared, can't control herself, and become aggressive cos she remember bad things about her experience. That's why we must know even the basic symptoms of a person who have been traumatized. If we will know about it we can help and understand them. Especially children who suffer from this psychological problems because they can't help themselves to this feeling,because they're too innocent to understand their surroundings that's why they can't help themselves.

According to the article of APA entitled Symptoms of Trauma in the website of Headington-Institute states that trauma reactions may appear quickly in the hours, days, and weeks after the event. Or it maybe delayed trauma reactions, can occur anywhere from several weeks or months to years later. Delayed trauma reactions are sometimes sparked by something that reminds the individual of the original traumatic event.

Trauma reactions tend to change in intensity or character over time and usually subside gradually during the first weeks and months after a traumatic event. Most people who have experience traumatic event will return to a healthy state of functioning eventually but may have lasting vulnerability.

Here are some symptoms of Trauma:

Re-experiencing the event (thoughts, images, daydreams, and nightmares), Feeling upset, distressed, and being anxious,  Feeling Isolate,  Anger or Aggressive behavior,  Feeling numb or empty, Feeling Suicidal, Self harm and and Self destructive, Being easily move to tears, Avoidance of people and places, Panic attacks/anxiety/depressions/mood wings, Feeling distrustful and suspicious/ blaming others, Relationship problems, Being on the alert of danger, Experiencing sleep disturbance, Difficulty concentrating, and  Losing interest.

This causes of Trauma are came from article entitled Symptoms of Trauma by The Veterans' Mental Health Charity in the website of Combat Stress and article of Symptoms of Trauma by APA in the website of Headington Institute.

We must know the symptoms of trauma because if we knew this things we can help others who are suffering from trauma and we can understand their experiences that are going through.  As a person who are very curious about trauma I realize that we, who have already know about this are having big role to the traumatized person because we only can understand the person who traumatized and we only are person who can offer help to them. Every one have a second chance, we only are the  people who can help to open the door of new hope and life to them."

"I am still a little lost but I have found people who are now my family that everyday make things a little better.." stated by Aureus' story