Tag: healing
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The Problem with Trauma Part I
definitely been sitting on this one too long….. I was recently asked to write a little something about trauma and the recovery therefrom so I thought I would give it a go like this. The back at the office format is a handy one to use but it does require a bit of the creativejuices to pull off, of course assuming that I am pulling that off, and right now I have those juices being utilizedon another project. That does remind me that I have not reminded you, my faithful readers, that I have an open call for topics here.If there is something you would like more information about, or want to hear a psychologist’s perspective on it,maybe the internet answer isn’t sitting right, or whatever–drop me a line or a message or a whatever and I notonly will I give it a go with my two cents but I promise to utilize not just my opinion and experience but the latest available research on the subject as well. now back to trauma… The question I was specifically asked is not altogether dissimilar to others I have been asked and addressed inthis little corner of the interweb–will I ever recover from this, or am I doomed to struggle with this forever? While it seems an easy enough question to answer it is a bit more complicated than that. As I have said before there is no such thing as “getting over” complicated emotions, there is only getting through them. I suppose the answer to part of the question is no, you will never get over your trauma,because no one ever really gets over anything. I suppose…