The website www.BeyondRecoveryCenter.com is dedicated to helping people suffering from Trauma, PTSD, c-PTSD, and RTS.
Emotional traumas are in fact, physical traumas to the very core of the brain. Nerve cells are rerouted, hormonal switches turn off and on, and our brains are rewired while our higher levels of thinking shuts down.
One-time events such as fires, floods, hurricanes or automobile accidents can leave an emotional scar taking months or years to overcome. However, with most one-time events, lasting a short time, the brain will correct itself and recovery will happen without aid. Nevertheless, even in mild trauma, the brain immediately loses its synchronization working less efficiently. The executive, right brain shuts down leaving the creative, left brain to fend for itself. Communication between the two halves of the brain diminishes. A person suffering from trauma, is affected in the highest level of thinking. Without realizing it, there is both a personality change as well as this loss in high level thinking.
An executive suffering from trauma will not be able to organize as efficiently as before. Things that were once fun and challenging may now become laborious and overwhelming. Without knowing why, a trauma causes an otherwise stable person to become unstable, quitting the long term job, selling the house, moving to a completely different lifestyle, concentrating on creativity rather than organization. After healing, these things return stronger than before.
This is because even with mild trauma, the brain becomes less efficient. It is a built-in safety feature of the brain. When we are overwhelmed by stress, this safety feature says, “Wait a minute, this is too much for me, I am not going to let you place all that stuff in here with the fine china. Clean it up, sort it out and then let’s think about it.
Floods, fires, hurricanes, blizzards all cause stress where emotion overwhelms us. This is emotional trauma, the effects are physical and the damage is deep within the brain.
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Written: 11/24/17