2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
If not all of us know what it is "Funnel of trauma" (author Peter Levin), then each of us could see the funnel in other places and has a general idea of this phenomenon.
We are talking about traumatic life events that the human psyche has not yet coped with. Strong tension in a certain topic creates a huge danger, attracting everything nearby with a powerful stream.
Here I will try to present this difficult concept in simple signs and examples
1. A funnel is an interruption of the free flow of life and experience. On the physical level a person can feel his own immobility, he cannot move in principle, run away or move away to a safe place or from a person who endangers his life. The physical strength to resist disappears, and the movements are heavy and slow.
It can manifest itself in a violation of speech and auditory function, a person cannot speak, scream, and auditory perception is distorted. As a consequence of the trauma, hearing, vision, speech may disappear, after effective psychotherapeutic work and / or support of loved ones, the functions are restored.
2. On emotional level many experiences are blocked at the very moment of trauma, which can have very long-term and profound consequences. When the psyche blocks the process of experience, it tries to protect the person from the experiences that he cannot cope with, and it acts like anesthesia during surgery, so as not to exceed the level of pain compatible with life.
It is very difficult for such people to build close, trusting and harmonious relationships. They are often either emotionally or physically at a distance, or in unequal relationships, and many of the processes of the traumatized person are suppressed by him or his partner. At the same time, a person can be hurt and bad in a relationship, and he has no physical strength to leave (as described above), or he cannot notice at all that these relationships are destroying and suppressing him.
3. In the form affective emotional reactions one can note both excessive grief and attachment to something and someone, and vice versa - excessive stability and endurance. Here attachment is very similar to a strong emotional dependence on a person, which it is, but this type of attachment is formed in both traumatized and emotionally immature people.
In traumatized people, one trauma can overlap, and the reactions and effects of events can be intermingled and imprinted as a habitual way of behaving in life. This is very noticeable in situations of severe stress, when a person is approached and physically violates his boundaries, and his reaction is weak or absent altogether. Or, on the contrary, any approach of another person is a strong stress, and the person constantly uses additional measures to ensure his own safety.
4. On the level of perception and intelligence with a generally high level of development and the absence of any violations, there is a noticeable disorientation in events. A person forgets what happened in a certain period of life, and with all the accompanying, non-trauma-related circumstances. No matter how a person tries to remember, he does not succeed, the only way to assume what was happening then is by logical reflections related to important calendar dates.
Not only emotional, but also physical sensitivity is impaired, people are deprived of simple life pleasures, not getting them either from their favorite activities, or from food, or from sex. Activities and activities are more automated than natural.
The consequences of trauma are very serious for the physical and emotional level of a person's development, they make it difficult to live a fulfilling life and enjoyment.
Dealing with trauma is painful and scary, but it is something that can help break the vicious circle of pain and self-destruction
The level of the trauma specialist should be high, but not necessarily very expensive. Not all psychologists who successfully work with clients have this special experience, look for your own and you will definitely find someone with whom the impossible will become possible.
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