Kokoro Trauma

This radio show delves into the interworkings of trauma and how specifically we can treat them through natural processes that can help develop new and healthy topics or rewire the brain. One of my favorite points in the article is when Dr. Van Der Kolk clarifies “therapy as in people really getting to know themselves very well and examining themselves and being seen and being heard and being understood has always been around and I think it will always be around. And I don’t think we’ll ever talk about it as necessarily primitive, because the intimate interchange of people really talking about their deepest feelings and their deepest pain and having persons listen to it has always been, and I think it always will be, a very powerful human experience” (Tippett,

Trauma is perceived as a physical or psychological threat or assault to a person’s physical integrity, sense of self, safety and/or survival or to the physical safety of a significant other; family member, friend, partner. (Kilpatrick, Saunders, and Smith, 2003). An adolescent may experience trauma from a variety of experiences, including but not limited to: abuse (sexual, physical, and/or emotional); neglect; abandonment; bullying; exposure to domestic violence and/ or community violence; natural disasters; medical procedures; loss/grief due to a death of a family member(s); surgery; accidents or serious illness; and war (Kilpatrick, Saunders, and Smith, 2003).

“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self preservation seems to go into permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment” (Judith Lewis Herman). The psychoanalyst Lewis Herman describes how encountering agonizing pain causes individuals to become more cautious as a result. The psychoanalytic lens is based on Freudian theories and asserts that “ people’s behavior is affected by their unconscious:...the notion that human beings are motivated, even driven, by desire, fears, needs, and conflicts of which they are unaware…” (Tyson 14-15) High schools a place where tragedy are brought upon people, but their voices aren’t heard. Melinda, a high school freshman, is the protagonist in Laurie Halse Anderson’s book, Speak.

* Explain the potential effects these events may have on the survivors and the first responders.

In the novella The Body, author Stephen King makes an attempt to explain a story about losing innocence, only to be replaced by maturity and the corruption that comes with it. To do so, King revolves a story around a group of four boys who go on a life changing journey to find a dead body they heard about through the grape vine. Little did they know that pursuing this journey would eventually change them for the worse. In its entirety, the crux of the novella was to show how the experience of meeting death hands-on will pivot a person’s life and will either lead them onto a slippery slope or mold them in to a man soon to be. More specifically, King reinforces this theme beautifully by using light imagery during the

For centuries there have seen casualties of war; soldiers who have had various physical injuries and scars that last a lifetime. Yet until the 20th century little was known about the emotional effects of war on soldiers and it wasn't until soldiers were studied psychologically that the public began to understand what had happened to them. One of the many things that the public began to understand was that any returning veteran came back with disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder, and the shell shock also known as Combat Stress Reaction. The trauma that they suffered is so great that some veteran come back not knowing how to act in their new normal life and become homeless, they suffer from substance abuse to cope and it jeopardizes

“Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul,” quotes Dave Pelzer, author of A Child Called “It” (“Child Abuse Quotes (493 Quotes)”). Prior to their deaths, these children have lived as prisoners of their childhood, manipulated by their abusers and forced to abandon the feelings of love and comfort that being a child should bring. For those that will see past the age of childhood, their scars will serve as a visual reminder of the events that plagued their thoughts, haunting them for the rest of their lives. Sadly, these survivors are not just left with physical scars, but severe emotional scarring as well. The trauma these children endured affects every part of their adult life, making

The Golden hour. In the field this is a term that was created by R Adams Cowley, MD, meaning that if a critical patient receives medical care within an hour, their chance of survival rises substantially. Within that hour a trauma patient will interact with several people, one of them being a Trauma Doctor, which is the career choice that I have chosen for myself. Trauma doctors evaluate, diagnose, stabilize and manage patients who have experienced some type of physical traumatic injury. Trauma doctors are usually trauma surgeons who have specialized critical care surgery training. The Trauma surgeon is a vital part of the golden hour, because within that hour if the patient can receive surgery the likelihood of the patient living heightens. The responsibilities of

The text given is the extract of chapter one of the book “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer. The extract is aimed to introduce the setting, making the atmosphere as well as to introduce the character. The book was inspired from the author real experience because the author was indeed is the main character in this book. The author wish to share his deathly experience to the world therefore the intended audience are all the people in the world.

Their mother has psychological trauma that can be connected to Eloni’s tendencies, the inability to provide adequately for her family, and the threat of being evicted. The most evident short-term effects of the psychological trauma, in this case, are the mood changes which lead to arguments and may also interrupt Kolomalu’s playful nature. The long-term effects of the trauma are seen as the drug abuse and defiant behavior such as stabbing children as observed with Eloni. In the case of Kolomalu, Cook et al. (2017) state that psychological trauma may impact the growth and development of children adversely. In the case of their mother, she might develop depression. These impacts are similar to short-term impacts in that they all involve a general change in the moods of the characters. Also, they adversely affect the health of the family and their well-being. However, in the case of short-term effects, the adversity of the effects is limited. In long-term effects of the trauma, the effects are severe and lead to a comparatively poorer quality of life such as living in foster care, the failure to achieve development goals, and the development of depressive symptoms as well as eviction from the

Mark Laser pointed out eight trauma reactions that people can experience that leads to painful consequences such as addictions. They are (a) trauma splitting which is basically dissociation, (b) trauma pleasure, when one lives within the adrenaline rush that they experienced during the trauma (c) trauma blocking, medicating the pain with destructive behaviors, (d) trauma reaction, when the mind and body telling is them that they are wounded inside, (e) trauma abstinence, avoiding things or situations to keep the pain away, (f) trauma shame, feeling guilt or shame because of the trauma, (g) trauma repetition, repeating the same behaviors over and over because they feel safer than new behaviors and (h) trauma bonding, finding a relationship with a person who will help them.

Full title: The confusion continues: results from an American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) survey on massive transfusion practices among United States trauma centers.

Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery provides not only greater understanding of how a traumatic event may defined but also the ways in which the effects of the experience may have a significantly repressing effect on the present and future self. Traumatic events are impressing on the self because they overwhelm the conventional emotional and physical perceptions that humanity has adjusted and modified their selves to. As traumatic events generally involve threats to the emotional and physical self, they differ from common misfortunes as they confront the victim with the feeling of extreme terror and helplessness that in result causes the individual to perceive the experience as one that was out of their control. As Herman reiterates, according to the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, “The common denominator of psychological trauma is a feeling of “intense fear, helplessness, loss of control, and threat of annihilation” (Herman 104). However, it is the response to the traumatic event in the emotional or conscious self that may differ from one another as there are three differing reactions to the terror factor of trauma: hyper-arousal, intrusion, and disconnection. Throughout this essay the work of Judith Lewis Herman’s Trauma and Recovery as well as Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower will be utilized to illustrated the compromising effects a traumatic experience such as childhood sexual abuse may have on the development of a young teen and the ways in

Thompson and colleagues (2009): Physical and sexual abuse was moderately positively correlated with positive symptom severity (especially grandiosity) among ethnic minority participants (N=17), while general trauma was positively correlated with affective symptoms among Caucasian participants (N=13).

In ‘Death Alone’, the chilling and frightening atmosphere is vividly portrayed through personification. Death’s stealthiness is depicted as it “comes to shout without a mouth, a tongue, without a throat” (L.27), conveying a sense of devastation that Death brings despite