2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Traumatic experiences are known to many to change a person's life. This article focuses on psychological trauma. But not just a description of the stages of the course, the consequences, but an unemotional phase, where, against the background of a seemingly internal balance, and the successful work of protective psychological mechanisms, a person (injured) can conclude that I have already gone through everything and healed. And here one of the principles of change may not be observed: a person will no longer remain the same as he was before. The traumatic experience changes a person and will never be like that again. For example, the loss of a loved one will definitely not return a past relationship. Or the emergence of fears, phobias, sleep disorders after psychotrauma, which is both an obstacle and a possible source of growth. A person, a client, and for me it is identical, seems to slip through a traumatic experience without fully experiencing it. Protective psychological mechanisms perform different functions, including protecting a person. Feeling more or less comfortable, a person can say everything is good to himself, thank God, it’s over, nothing happened to me, but there was a lot I suffered, experienced, for example, fear, guilt, shame, shock, anger, resentment and much more, and everything passed me, such as before, you can exhale and live as you lived on.
The problem, encapsulating in this phase of psychotrauma, does not allow a person to live it completely and truly leave it in the past. And only then, at the exit, look for the necessary resources for your growth. And only after that, build your life taking into account the changes. Following without the emotional, ideally, there comes a phase of depression, some psychologists - colleagues call it the "seven circles of hell." Frequent symptoms, feelings of depression, indifference, apathy, sadness, loss of a sense of security. All the feelings that a person experienced in the second phase return again on a new round of the traumatic spiral, spinning it more and more.
I think it would be appropriate to say that in the phase of depression, both attempts at suicidal thoughts and completed suicides are frequent. Counseling and therapy in this phase is very difficult because clients see a psychologist either in the acute phase or with depression or PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) for example, insomnia, apathy, loss of joy in life, anxiety, irritability or outbursts of anger, loss control in life. I would also like to convey one not less important aspect of being stuck in the unemotional stage - this is the devaluation of life in its fullness of beauty, joy, brightness, unpredictability, saturation. How to help a person go through all the stages and truly heal, support, become for a time a reliable support, a "tool" for help. And in our case, gently "push" to move further and reach the search for and finding resources and connection with oneself.
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