Psychological trauma

the world. One of the leading causes for the development of mental illnesses is trauma. Trauma plays a significant role in the development of borderline personality disorder. McLean and Gallop (2003) express that the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was quite higher in patients that suffered from trauma in their childhood, than the patients that experienced trauma in their adult life. This portrays that trauma can cause a harmful effect on an individual’s mental health. Borderline…

be seen, for they are the ones forever etched into the psyche. Depression, anger, fear, hopelessness, and isolation: these represent the gloomy colors that PTSD has chosen to carve into the canvas that is a victim’s mind using the stiff bristles of trauma. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental condition or injury that maims soldiers and civilians alike who have been dealt a bad hand in life and had to endure emotionally intense situations. Situations like these leave such devastating…

experience a type of trauma and we then see how it affected them. This led me to think how does childhood trauma affect people as adults? Through this inquiry I developed three key questions, what is the age or ages that a child is most affected? What are the causes of trauma? And, what are the long-term effects of trauma? My hypothesis is that through my research I will find that childhood trauma has both subtle and strong effects on adulthood depending on how severe the trauma is. What is…

Developmental Trauma Causes of Dissociative Identity Disorder are wide and conflicting but one popular theory that is generally accepted in the field of medicine and psychology is that DID is a result of severe trauma such as rape, abuse, etc that one has experienced in the past. Dissociation becomes a coping mechanism for people whose memories of certain incidents are so harrowing that their brains respond by temporarily removing themselves from the situation. This results in a person becoming…

inference that people who witness traumatizing events in the course of their lives must experience some form of trauma afterwards. A practical case and instance is the soldiers and military men who return to their normal lives after wars. Thus, the line and area of interest is usually to gauge with utmost precision and accuracy the extent of the trauma. This is question the effects of the trauma on the…

Trauma is always defined by the event and experience of the survivor if there are any. Millions of Americans are faced with several psychological damage when surviving the most unimagined pain. One of the most common disorder that comes from a traumatic event in survivors is post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). Symptoms usually begin early usually within 3 months of the traumatic event, or they begin years after. The courage and strength only some get is extraordinary, others however do not get…

It is important to note that the definition of evacuee is “a person evacuated from a place of danger to somewhere safe. There is no stipulation as to whether you must be evacuated prior to or after the disaster in order to be considered an evacuee. There is a large portion of evacuees who lacked resources to leave New Orleans prior to the storm. Due to this, several people were not evacuated until days after the storm hit. This initiates not only displacement stressors, but also immediate…

Combat trauma is something that has haunted my family since my brother and two of my uncles, tours in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. My uncles only served once due to both sustaining back injuries due to roadside bombings in the Iraq war. My brother served in both wars and it seemed as if he was deploying every other year until 2012. It was most understandable because he is Army Special Forces but he was leaving behind his wife, children, sisters and mother. My first experience with the effects…

In her novel, Trauma and Recovery, Judith Herman discusses the concept of Complex Trauma Disorder and its implications. Intolerant of the currently defined diagnosis for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), she decides to rename it. Herman believes that the existing definition for PTSD is inaccurate, or as she asserts “does not fit accurately enough” (119). The present criteria for this diagnosis results from those who have survived “circumscribed” traumatic events, which includes rape,…

includes thoughts, memories and images related to the trauma (Rachaman, 1980). The researchers were trying to answer question in two occurring responses related to traumatic events. An issues related to intrusive thoughts and talking to the bereaved mothers. Intrusive thought may be the cause of incomplete traumatic process from the infant death. While social constrain may limit the discussing issues to the trauma. And also may lead to prolong psychological distress.…