Traumatic Life Experience

One the most traumatic events that occurred in my life was losing my mother at the age of nine. I was the eldest of five when my mother passed away due to Breast cancer in 1986. She was twenty –eight when her life came to an end. Being the eldest a lot of responsibilities were left towards me, when it came to taking care of my sisters for instance: washing, cooking, folding clothes and combing hair. At the time my younger sisters were between the ages 7-2. My father was thirty –three and had to work all the time to provide for us.

Moving on to Part II of the book, also known as Transitions, much focus is placed on the effects of Juette’s injury. After being transferred from Northwest Memorial Hospital to Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), Juette realized the severity of his injury. He would probably have to use a wheelchair for the rest of his life. At this time, he had to learn how to perform simple tasks all over again, including going to the

Chapter five discussed trauma and stress disorders. Two of these disorders being acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. For this week’s discussion we were asked to discuss what types of events in modern society might trigger these disorders. I feel that many events could trigger this type of disorder. The initial events that come to mind are the Iraq war, Hurricane Matthew that is affecting the east coast currently, the San Bernardino terrorist attack, death of a child, and being a victim of a sexual assault. I think that all of these can be extremely stressful for an individual. However, people on the outside may view one event to be more traumatic than another. Some things that may help relieve the stresses of modern society

It may be that certain experiences, situations or people trigger flashbacks or other symptoms. These might include specific reminders of past trauma such as smells, sounds, words or a particular type of book or film.

Nicole Barle, Camille Wortman, and Jessica Latack from Stony Brook university wrote traumatic bereavement basic research and clinical implications. In their article they reviewed basic research on domains of life affected by traumatic loss and the risk factors that survivors are vulnerable to such as traumatic bereavement. In the article it for the describes the comprehensive treatment approach which is three critical components building resources processing trauma in facilitating morning. Traumatic death leaves the host with many troubling issues that are not typically present following a natural death because not only do they have to deal with the death of their loved 1 but also with the destruction of there most basic life assumptions. The

Childhood trauma is one of the most common problems among people today around the world. For many, their childhood has led them down roads of deep depression, anger and even fear. While for some, they feel as though they have had a pretty normal childhood. Child abuse not only can affect their work relationships, but even their own relationships with spouses and children. The effects childhood trauma and abuse has on adults limit not only their workplace relationships and interpersonal relationships, but also their own relationship with themselves as they mature.

As the night sky dances with the stars and the blissful silence of the night, there I was, laying on the cold ground... dying. Was there something missing? Did i trully fulfil my purpose on this desolant planet? While I lay there, helpless and soaring with pain, a footstep takes me away from deep train of thought. I struggle to lift my head to see who the assailant is. My left eye is blurry so i try to focus with my right eye instead. I cant make who it is, so i let myself give in to the throbbing pain pulsing through my head. My head hits the pavement with a thud. "So, how are we going to dispose of you huh? The way I see it, the whole council wants you gone."

Did you know that in many cases, the cause of sex addiction can be linked back to past emotional traumas? The two issues may seem like they are worlds apart but in actual fact, emotional trauma, particularly in the early stages of life, can have a significant impact on the persons’ ability to cope and result in unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as sexual addictions.

From a young age I felt like I felt compelled to protect the U.S. And I have experienced a lot of tragedies in my life. I was in one of the first battles in the Vietnam war. I fought in the battle of Ia Drang, which had a total death toll of at least 500 of my fellow brothers. I lost many of my brothers out in that valley.

Psychological trauma is an “injury” resulting from directly experiencing, witnessing or hearing a distressing, disturbing, threatening or frightening event (Australian Psychology Society). Trauma can be a single event or multiple that can have adverse effects in a person’s cognitive, emotional, behavioral, physiological and occupational functioning (Perry, 1994). Multiple trauma can be complex trauma, developmental trauma or complex PTSD. Complex trauma is usually at an early onset, and the experience is multiple, chronic and prolonged exposure to traumatic events, mostly interpersonal in nature (Van der Kolk, 2005).

Most people probably know by now that high levels of unmanaged stress can lead to very serious physical symptoms and illnesses. But did you know that excessive stress can also cause damaging changes in your behaviors too, such as stress eating or self harming? These are just two ways in which people try to stop feeling overwhelmed as stress takes a toll on their lives. But there are many others. Here are my five best tips to stop stress from ruining your life.

Accidents can happen anytime. We start to lose focus on reality, or what’s really happening around us. Our eyes begin to wander off in space, and our minds are somewhere else. Nothing but thoughts arouse, and all we can think about It’s like a never ending dream, a dream that will never go away, it just keeps you wondering, and wondering. When the teacher asks you a question, and you don’t respond, nor think about anything, that’s when you become oblivious. Or when someone asks you to grab something, but you can’t because your mind is somewhere else, or you’re too busy doing something else.

I wanted to start off by talking about my reason for choosing this particular traumatic experience. Even though I am interested and intrigued about other traumatic experiences and how they affect each individual, this particular experience is more salient for me because my family and I experienced it and lost several family members including a brother during this experience. I choose an article that researched the impact on civil war specifically to how it affects emotions in children especially child soldiers. As like any other traumatic experience, having to experience and survive a civil war has it lasting scars. Scars of emotional and psychological damages, negative thoughts and images and other psychological issues like depression and

This semester I had the opportunity to complete my fieldwork at Northern Physical Therapy. While Northern Physical Therapy has many local clinics, I attended the Wayland location. My experience at this site involved me showing up on Mondays for 5 hours and Fridays for 4 hours, totaling around 9 hours per week. At the Wayland location, the clinic had two Physical Therapists, Matt and Denise, an Occupational therapist, Anna, an Occupational Therapist Assistance, Stephanie, and two Personal Care Assistants, Kassie and Lisa. Although I was anticipating my supervisor to be Anna, the Occupational Therapist, I ended up working with Matt majority of the time. He has been a Physical Therapist for around 3 years after

When I was twelve years old I went through one of the most traumatic experiences a girl of that age thinks they can go through, I moved. Not only had my family moved but as a result I had to switch schools and essentially restart my life. No longer were the days of taking public transit to my urban hip school now I would have to become accustom to taking a white bus that made it’s trip through the suburban neighborhood that I would have to now call my home. Almost upon arrival I was dubbed as being different and therefore unapproachable by my peers. Just beginning what would end up being my Goth phase my black lipstick and “spooky” attire had no place in the cookie cutter environment of my new dwellings.