Trauma

The impact of witnessing or experiencing a stressful event can affect us psychologically as well as emotionally. Your sense of security can be undermined if you feel your safety is threatened or your well being is put at risk. There are many different causes of trauma.The feeling of helplessness can feel crippling leaving our emotional state to be in turmoil, causing an adverse or extreme reaction to similar events.  

The important thing to remember is that it’s not the circumstance or event in itself that signals trauma, but what your emotional experience was of the event. The more frightened or helpless you feel, the more likely you are to be traumatised. For some people a car backfiring would send them running for cover under a table yet of others its just a car backfiring. In another instance seeing a spider could send someone screaming out of the room for others, not bothered at all, in fact would want to hold the spider. This is to say that not everyone will react to the same event in the same way.