Trauma: Definition, Response, & SymptomsBy Charlie Huntington, M.A., Ph.D. Candidate
Trauma is your body’s response to an experience that overwhelms it and may even put your life at risk. How do we respond to, and heal from, trauma?
If the experience becomes completely overwhelming, we enter a kind of survival mode with limited options. You’ve probably heard of some of those options before: fight or flight, for example, with the more recent additions of freeze and fawn. When we reach a moment in our lives that leaves us with only these options, we have likely encountered an experience that will be traumatic for us. Therapists work within and just beyond a client’s window of tolerance, helping them to face their fears or voice their anger—and ultimately to increase their capacity to handle intense experiences. Trauma takes us far outside that window, creating long-lasting challenges for our psychological well-being unless we work hard to heal from what’s happened to us.
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