Tag: coping with a traumatic experience
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Why Past Trauma Isn’t Worth It Anymore, But You Are
Here’s how you can turn a traumatic experience into triumph. We all face challenges that shape us throughout our lives. Sometimes, these challenges include traumatic experiences that leave lasting marks. However, there’s a powerful truth that needs to be embraced: while your past trauma is a part of your story, it’s not the whole story.…
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4 Ways Past Trauma Hurts Relationships
Past trauma can impact every facet of life, including relationships with loved ones and colleagues. When you’ve faced distressing situations in the past, it can affect your thoughts and feelings in current relationships. If you don’t heal from the mental and emotional damage, you may find it challenging to connect deeply with others. Trauma can…
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Psychology Explains Explain How Trauma Therapy Can Improve Mental Health
There’s a reason trauma therapy exists today. There are many reasons why people may struggle with mental health issues. Some individuals may have a genetic predisposition to certain mental health conditions. Others may develop mental health issues due to traumatic experiences, chronic stress, or other life events. And here is where trauma therapy can come…
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Psychologists Explain What Makes Someone Feel Inadequate
Do you ever feel like you’re not enough? You may have a spouse, children, and the house with the white picket fence that people dream of, but you still feel inadequate. In fact, that nagging feeling of inadequacy eats away at you and tells you that you’re missing something. But what? Finding the Root of…
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Therapists Explain 5 Ways to Recover from a Traumatic Experience
Many people live through a traumatic experience but escape relatively unscathed over time. However, others develop mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result. You might connect PTSD with soldiers returning from war. And that can be the case. But some people develop the condition from being the victim…