How does trauma occur and why does it affect us into adulthood?
Trauma is a psychological and emotional state that arises as a result of severe stress or an overwhelming experience. This situation can involve physical or emotional damage that disrupts an individual's normal functioning and their ability to cope with the stress.
What can cause trauma?
- Serious accidents, injuries, or illnesses.
- The loss of a loved one, divorce.
- Abuse, domestic violence, or other dangerous and exhausting experiences.
- Trauma can result from sexual violence or abuse.
- It often occurs in childhood due to chronic stress, neglect, humiliation, or beating of the child.
- But trauma can also occur in adolescence (e.g., bullying at school or by teachers) and in adulthood (e.g., infidelity of a partner, difficult childbirth, or a car accident).
However, trauma is NOT only the death of a parent, daily beatings with a belt, or hunger and poverty.
To create trauma, it really takes very little.
We experience a strong event in which we feel extremely intense emotions – fear, uncertainty, guilt, sadness, etc., emotions that we don't know how to handle.
We don’t understand what’s happening around us or within us, and we can't cope with the emotions, so to speak.
The strength of trauma is not assessed today based on its severity, but based on the intensity of the emotional experience we were going through at that moment in our body.
For example, a father tells his teenage daughter that she has a big bottom in her skirt. It hurts her and strikes her at the heart. From the first most important man in her life, she hears humiliation and feels a betrayal. She proudly leaves, not showing anything on the outside (she vents about her father), but she carries with her the feeling that she is unloved, unaccepted, and also ugly. The seed of low self-esteem and lack of self-love is planted.
As an adult woman, she struggles with relationships, men don’t value her, and she suffers, constantly criticizing her body, which may manifest in overweight and painful periods.
Or a person may carry the burden of an unpleasant experience from school into adulthood...
A teacher humiliates a student in front of the entire class. They laugh at him when he is being tested and mock him for not knowing anything again. The unfortunate boy experiences betrayal, mockery, humiliation, and feels embarrassed, thinking that he is worthless and not good enough.
The situation may worsen when he is scolded at home for yet another bad grade. In the future, he may constantly find himself in situations where he feels just like that little boy in front of the blackboard. His boss humiliates him in front of colleagues, his wife doesn’t value him, and he earns little money because he feels that he is worth nothing.
I’ll mention another fairly common example – bullying among classmates at school.
A group of older students mocks a younger girl.
She gradually becomes afraid to go to school, starts vomiting in the morning before leaving the house, refuses to eat, has trouble sleeping, and her grades deteriorate.
She is afraid to tell her parents because she fears they will just scold her for not being able to stand up for herself.
How can the situation end for a young girl who has no support, understanding, or protection at home and is facing terror at school, which no one sees or wants to see?
If you're a parent reading these lines, please don't brush it off. The number of bullied children in schools is alarming, and the consequences of such behavior for the victim are immeasurable. The story above is not fictional but one of many that mothers or the children themselves describe in the questionnaires for Customized Bach Drops.
Trauma creates a block in the body that we cannot move with sheer willpower.
The consequences of trauma can affect us for a lifetime.
What can trauma cause?
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
PTSD is a mental disorder that can occur after a traumatic experience, characterized by recurring memories, nightmares, and hyperactivity. - Depression and Anxiety
Trauma can increase the risk of developing depression and anxiety. - Relationship Problems
Trauma can affect the ability to form and maintain healthy interpersonal relationships, causing issues with partners and family, jealousy, and hatred towards oneself and others. - Self-destructive Behavior
Some individuals may develop tendencies toward self-harm, addiction, or destructive behavior as a way of coping with trauma. - Low Self-esteem and Self-worth
Trauma can impact one's self-image, leading to low self-esteem and diminished self-worth. - Emotional Regulation Issues
Some people may struggle with managing emotions and expressing feelings appropriately.
Weight Problems, Stubbornness, High Expectations for Oneself, Workaholism, Fear for Others, Difficult Adaptation to Changes, Fertility Issues, Mistrust, Burnout, Pessimism, Procrastination, Poor Concentration, Nostalgia, Self-pity, Resignation, Impatience, Explosiveness, and Self-centeredness.
These are just some possible outcomes of trauma.
The question isn’t whether you have some childhood or adolescent trauma.
We all have it—some more, some less.
It depends on how much they affect us and whether we have resolved them, understood and processed them in our minds, and emotionally released them—whether cried out or screamed out.
How can we release trapped emotions from the body after years or even decades?
Jedna z možností jsou Bachovy esence.
One option is Bach Flower Essences.
Bach Flower Drops can remove blocks and dissolve negative emotions tied to trauma.
They go deep and remove the source of your current distress.
They can dissolve up to 7 blocks at once.
They do not just mask symptoms; instead, they address the root cause.
By bringing up the negative first, they allow you to once again experience peace, joy, gratitude, and overall well-being in life.
Thanks to Bach Flower Essences, your body and mind are back in balance.
Thanks to Customized Drops:
- You will identify and remove the source of your distress.
- You will be freed from your fears, anxieties, anger outbursts, stress, and discomfort.
- They will help alleviate physical symptoms like insomnia, eczema, nail-biting, hair loss, overweight, constipation, headaches, severe PMS, etc.
- By releasing the negative, you will be able to feel the positive again.
- You will experience joy in life, satisfaction, restful sleep, and become calmer and more balanced.
- Bach Flower Essences do not mask symptoms but go deep and address the root cause.