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Why do some people recover from trauma and others don't?
Psychological trauma, also known as mental injury or emotional damage, is the emotional response caused by a serious and stressful event. These incidents may include physical harm, sexual violence, or threats to life. Whether these are the direct causes of psychological trauma or the factors that cause people to fall into deep pain is worth our deep consideration.
Long-term reactions to trauma may include flashbacks, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmares, multiple relationship difficulties, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Different people react differently to similar events. Most people who experience a potentially traumatic event do not become psychologically traumatized, although they may experience distress and severe discomfort. However, some people develop PTSD after experiencing traumatic events, which makes us wonder why some people can recover from trauma while others cannot?
This difference in risk can be attributed to the protective factors that individuals possess, including emotional resilience and willingness to seek help.
The signs and symptoms of psychological trauma vary from person to person, as does their severity. Some people who experience trauma re-experience these painful experiences in different ways. The stimuli that trigger these painful memories may be ordinary phenomena that occur in their daily lives, such as a sound or scene, which is called a trauma trigger. This reaction not only affects their mental health, but also undermines their self-cognition and emotional regulation abilities.
Re-experiencing pain can make people feel insecure, undermine self-confidence, and lead to emotional confusion and social impairment.
Behavioral responses to trauma vary depending on the individual's background and circumstances. Some people choose to use drugs to escape emotional fluctuations, and the vicious cycle makes their emotional state fall into the situation of a frog in a well. Faced with these strong emotions, some people’s anger is likely to erupt without warning, leading to the deterioration of interpersonal relationships around them.
At the same time, trauma can also cause physical symptoms such as migraines, hyperventilation, and nausea.
Some people have a higher sensitivity to events, perhaps because of their genes or the effects of early trauma. This means that some people are born with greater resilience to trauma and are better able to resist the effects of psychological trauma. Such findings make us realize that there are significant individual differences in the ability to recover.
In fact, this also involves people’s social support system. Individuals have a higher chance of recovery if they are surrounded by positive social support and therefore receive treatment and counseling.
Early psychotherapy is undoubtedly crucial for the treatment of trauma. Being able to help people re-understand and deal with the events they have experienced through professional psychological counseling is an important step in promoting recovery. In addition, trauma treatment should also consider how to enable individuals to rebuild their self-cognition and correct their views of the world.
During the recovery process from trauma, good social relationships and interactions can help people process their emotions more effectively.
In the process of exploring trauma recovery, we not only see that the theory and practice of psychology transcend the transmission of technology, but also a rethinking of the deep structure of human psychology. People's living environment, social system and family atmosphere will affect whether a person can recover successfully.
In this way, trauma is often not just a personal journey, but a combination of emotional and social dynamics. How people respond to trauma depends not only on the event itself, but also on how they cope with it. This makes us wonder: What kind of support and understanding can we provide to each other in the process of rebuilding our hearts?
