Trauma 

Much is known about trauma

Or is it: Many of us can and do tell of the trauma's we have experienced during our life, constantly telling the tale, trying to make light or sense of it of it. Even making it sound very funny or on the other hand reliving the nightmare of it on a daily basis. We turn to our loved ones, friends, work colleges or anyone at the "Bus Stop" who will listens to our tale of woe. 

What is a Trauma 

An external negative stimulus not to our liking invoking an internal emotional response. Fear. Placing us in a position of not being able or allowed to say no, or "I do not like or understand what is happening to me." The Unknown part: What we, and science/medicine it seems, cannot comprehend, is how Trauma (s) (when speaking of trauma it is always meant in the plural, meaning many) affect us, we cannot know how they affect our attitude, our thinking, even our body language, let alone how our body's two thousand or so, chemicals and hormones are affected. The desire of the body is always to maintain a balance. 

Trauma example

Consider, our first day at school. At the school gates we wet our pants, easily understandable. What, at that time do we nor others, take into consideration, is the other emotions that are insidiously affected. Fear, Anxiety, Etc. It is easy and we all do, think this is to do with going into a new situation, do we ever consider the fearsome environment we have left and our sub-conscious reaction to that. Then there is the anticipatory fear (perception) of going into this new environment being wet and later smelly. Embarrassment, anger and many emotions are bought to bear. These emotive responses contrary to popular belief never leave us, always in the sub-conscious mind creating secretions of chemicals that formulate the direction of our life and future health. Change the story to any (Abuse, Verbal and Sexual) and the outcome is always the same.

What happens next? 

Our mind tries to make sense of what has happened to us. Relative to the power (strength) of the trauma we begin the process of an insidious change. Firstly, with the thought in our mind - "I do not want to go through that again." "Put it to the back of your mind," we are told. This changing process will be continuous for the rest of our lives. In other words, the changes made are to protect us during the course of our lives from the same thing happening again, relative to the changing demands life seems to place upon us. 

Put it to the back of our mind 

We do not seem to hear this statement so much these days. In years gone by that was precisely what we were told. Was it safe to do that? Can we actually forget a trauma by taking such seemingly harmless action? The answer to this conundrum is most definitely no. For the more we try to tuck the trauma away in the depths of our mind, the more active it remains for the rest of our life, always adjusting the secretions of our body chemicals to ensure a balance is maintained. These adjusted chemicals are always destructive, for there is no part of the mind or body these chemicals cannot reach. 

End Product of trauma 

New and science defying pains/illnesses. Pains that cannot be seen by new technology, pains that are as real as the nose on ones face, even when, accident or surgery has removed a part of the body….

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