Trauma symptoms and conditions will become apparent mentally, emotionally and physically. Whichever way trauma enters the body or mind, all aspects of the human psyche are involved.
Unreleased traumatic stress disrupts the nervous system and emotional balance. It puts the nervous system on high alert; this is accompanied by a whole list of inhibited tendencies which manifest as anxiety, panic, hyperactivity and vigilance, inability to relax, emotional flooding, sleeplessness, rage, and hostility.
The Trauma Symptoms of Activation and Collapse
Once the energy is negatively discharged through the symptoms mentioned above, the nervous system often spirals into a depressed state accompanied by lethargy, deadness, disconnection, exhaustion, complex syndromes, and depression.
Unreleased traumatic stress disrupts the nervous system and emotional balance. It puts the nervous system on high alert; this is accompanied by a whole list of inhibited tendencies which manifest as anxiety, panic, hyperactivity and vigilance, inability to relax, emotional flooding, sleeplessness, rage, and hostility.
The sooner we seek help after a traumatizing event, the better off we will be. If we live with the effects of trauma for too long, we tend to develop coping habits and survival strategies to help regulate the high energy arousal of the nervous system. These coping, proxy habits can, often as not, develop from soft options into focal points and serious problems in their own right. When I say coping habits, think of addictions like excessive medication, drugs, food, drink, sex/porn, gambling and/or shopping.
The emotional charge of trauma linked to a coping habit reinforces an unhealthy, cyclic, revolving door of intense build-up and release of energy in the nervous system.
An Overview of Complex PTSD and Trauma Symptoms:
avoidance behaviorflash-backs and nightmareschronic painspanicemotional floodinglethargyexhaustiondenialsevere somatic reactionsdissociative identitieshysterical seizuresself-righteous behavior
re-enactmentamnesia of the eventemotional instabilityhyperactivity and vigilancesleeplessnessemotional deadness/numbnesscomplex syndromesdepersonalizationpromiscuitysuicidaldisconnectionanger
substance abuseaddictionssocial isolation behavioranxietyinability to relaxrage and hostilitydepressionprojection into blame and guiltself-hatredself-mutilationsexual dysfunctionself-sabotage
Possible Psychological Conditions Ensuing from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
depressionborderline personality disordersuicidebipolar disordermanic depressionschizophreniaanxiety disordereating disorderadhdburnoutself-enclosed
sleep disordersantisocialbulimia nervosaguiltgriefinsomniamental illnesssadnessphobiamultiple personalitiesbereavement
hypertensionhelplessnesspersonality disorderspost-surgery syndromedissociative disorderspsychosisdependentobsessive compulsiveangerparanoidavoidance behavior
Possible Physical Conditions Ensuing from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
anorexiamigraine headachemultiple sclerosischronic fatigue syndromechest painlower back painshoulder painscoliosisauto-immune disease
fibromyalgiachronic paincardiovascular diseasecystic fibrosiscancerheartburnheart attackacidityneck pain
high blood pressureinflammationirritable bowel syndromejoint painosteoarthritisoverweighthysterectomyindigestionliver dysfunction
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