Therapy & Coaching for Post-trauma Stress
Anyone can, and most do, experience negative symptoms for a short time following a very stressful or traumatic experience. For example, divorce, illness, accident, injury, loss of a loved one, unexpected unemployment, and severe debt.
These can be extremely stressful, traumatic, and emotionally difficult to deal with and may cause prolonged distraction, preoccupation, sadness, and anger about these things.
Other types of stressors can be so serious and horrifying that they can cause more long term symptoms often resulting in post-trauma stress.
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 Signs & symptoms of post-trauma stress.Â
When we experience, witnessed, or have been confronted with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of ourselves or others, we can develop a much more severe stress responses. These include intense fear, helplessness, hyperarousal, flashbacks, depression and anxiety, and can lead to behaviours such as insomnia, avoidance, social isolation, suicidal ideation, self-harm or harm to others.
Such experiences include combat, assault, rape, prolonged abuse, or observing serious, violent, or sudden and unexpected death of another person. What distinguishes these stressful events from trauma is whether they involved an immediate threat to life or physical injury or violation.
For these kinds of symptoms it's important to seek professional help asap and especially if they persist for several weeks following the trauma event.
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