The human brain a powerful tool. It allows us to learn, see, remember, hear, perceive, and understand language. Sometimes, the human brain also fails us. Trauma is often the result of an overwhelming amount of stress that exceeds one's ability to cope, or when you experience a life-threatening event to yourself or someone close to you, accompanied by intense fear, horror or helplessness (according to Webster dictionary). Psychological Trauma interferes the area in the brain such as amygdala (involved in emotion management), and the hippocampus (involved in memory and memory consolidation). To help heal the mind we must understand how trauma works in the brain.
A single severely distressing event can alter the mind and thus turning your life into an endless struggling battle of everyday living trying to cope with life. Things that can cause Traumatic events include childhood physical or sexual abuse, accidents, natural disasters, assault, rape, warfare or losing a parent or a child. What interested me about the psychological trauma are the effects, such as the two
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As referenced, to help traumatized victims, you must understand how it effects the brain of the person. Human psychology focuses on the person through the subject's point of view rather than modern
Scientific principles. To help people who suffer from trauma you must help on a more personal level. The way trauma effects everyone varies therefor treatment is different for everyone and needs to be hands on.
In conclusion, trauma is a disease that effects the amygdala and the hippocampus parts of the brain. Living day by day is an endless struggle with trauma, endless worrying if you are safe, constant flashbacks, Depression and fear, the list goes on and on. Rather than trying to cope with it one's self is a struggle, seek help from loved ones or a professional, it helps to discuss and interact with others who suffers from