Traumatic Experience: The Effects Of Losing Someone Close To You

For some bereavement is an unpredictable and traumatic experience, the loss of a loved one may evoke in the individual you support, behaviours and emotions you have not seen

The personal essay, Variations on Grief, by Meghan Daum is about how she tried to cope with the death of a dear friend of hers, Brian Peterson. At first, she attempted to deal with her loss by detaching herself from it and pretending that it didn’t affect her, but she soon discovered that she couldn’t escape reality in that manner.. As Brian’s parents came to rely on her for support, she felt obligated to lie to them about his life because it felt easier than telling the truth. At the same time, she had to deal with her own confused emotions and endeavored to convince herself that Brian had died because he simply wasn’t capable of living. When I first read Daum’s essay, I couldn’t quite understand her reaction to Brian’s death.

When one loses someone or something valuable to them, the grief can be intense. But what happens when what they lose is actually a piece of them? Novels depicting a witness account of The Holocaust (1941 - 1945) paint a picture of the violence and moral anguish, which is accompanied by a loss to the protagonist. The plot shows a process of events that ultimately leads to death and devastation. Both protagonists in Elie Wiesel’s Night and Wladyslaw Szpilman’s The Pianist gradually fall into the abyss of inhumane behaviour. Post Holocaust, they embark on a new life free from social restraints and become either unmindful or compliant to the losses they faced on their journey. Elie and Wladyslaw

Traumatizing events are happening all over the world, and are being caused by pitiless gang

First, some memories were useless in our personalities. Lots of war veterans have bad memories they cannot forget and always rings a bell of their fear. The psychologists were not that useful dealing with that. Before finding the way or drugs, which could recover the post-traumatic stress, the using of propranolol is still important. It could reduce the pain of these victims. Although the use of the drugs would have negative effects on people. This is better than let people feeling fear sporadic and feeling sad all the time. It seemed a good way to solve similar problems easily and apace. The drugs could relatively reduce the post-traumatic stress.

Grief and loss are one of the most universal human experiences, though painful, and understandably causes distress. However, approximately 15 % experience a more problematic grieving process with elevated symptoms of depression and/or posttraumatic stress symptoms (Bonanno and Kaltman, 1999).There is no well-established model of the timeline for resolution of grief and the variance of its expression is wide. Many persons cope with the emotional pain of bereavement without any formal intervention. However, individuals who have experienced traumatic bereavement, such as deaths that are sudden, violent, or due to human actions (Green 2000), may face particular challenges. Researchers have tried to define a model for the treatment of traumatic bereavement that fully supports not only the client, but also those working with the clients around their trauma

Nicole Barle, Camille Wortman, and Jessica Latack from Stony Brook university wrote traumatic bereavement basic research and clinical implications. In their article they reviewed basic research on domains of life affected by traumatic loss and the risk factors that survivors are vulnerable to such as traumatic bereavement. In the article it for the describes the comprehensive treatment approach which is three critical components building resources processing trauma in facilitating morning. Traumatic death leaves the host with many troubling issues that are not typically present following a natural death because not only do they have to deal with the death of their loved 1 but also with the destruction of there most basic life assumptions. The

Almost everyone in the world experiences an event which can be considered as a loss. It is the disappearance of something or someone important to an individual, grief is the natural response to the loss, people feel a range of emotions when they suffer a loss such as shock, panic, denial, anger and guilt. Death is one of the major events associated with loss but there are many others that occur which can also have a negative effect on someone’s life by impacting in various ways.

Grief and loss are some of the most defining characteristics of the human experience. Therefore, dealing with grief and loss is one of the most important things humans must learn. While there are many approaches, Jennifer Kent uses her film The Babadook to suggest that suppression is not a healthy way to deal with grief. By thoughtfully planning the mise-en-scene, soundtrack, and narrative storytelling, Kent teaches viewers that suppression causes the inner monster to come out in all of us, just as it did to Amelia in The Babadook.

A moment is defined as a brief period of time. The average lifespan of a person consists of 27,375 days, that is 39,420,000 minutes (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). Within those hundreds of thousands of minutes, humans have the endless opportunity to experience a moment. A significant moment in my life was when I was sexually assaulted seven years ago. For a long time this moment held a negative impact on my life. Nonetheless, this moment is also what taught me how to love myself, forgive and that life keeps going. My sexual assault taught me, one moment will not define the rest of my life.

PTSD is not easily treated. Sometimes people can not only suffer mentally but have physical impairments from the event as well. This can make it hard for them to obtain the treatment they need. A combination of medications and psychotherapy is usually recommended and is the most effect form of treatment for PTSD. The earlier a person seeks treatment for this disorder the better the outcome will be. The medications are used to help people cope with their emotions while the psychotherapy will help

Trauma occurs when a child has experienced an event that threatens or causes harm to her emotional and physical well-being. Events can include war, terrorism, natural disasters, but the most common and harmful to a child’s psychosocial well-being are those such as domestic violence, neglect, physical and sexual abuse, maltreatment, and witnessing a traumatic event. While some children may experience a traumatic event and go on to develop normally, many children have long lasting implications into adulthood.

For my final reflection paper, I would like to discuss vicarious trauma and its implications. This topic has stuck with me ever since we learned about it earlier in the semester. It is something that I fear will impact me during my work as a counselor. While I do not intend to deal exclusively with trauma patients, I cannot control who walks through my doors so it is in my best interest to understand ways to protect against vicarious trauma. My initial reaction to this topic was, “oh that does not bother me” or “I won’t have a problem with that,’ but as trauma seeped into my personal life it became apparent hat it does in fact bother me. Dealing with my cousins’ trauma this semester and trying my best to be helpful and supportive has proven to be more difficult then original thought.

If we had an option to wipe out our memory, would we choose to forget about the events that involved actual or threatened death, serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of ourselves or others? For soldiers, it may be losing a close comrade in a war. For me or any other ordinary individuals, they may be natural or human-made disasters, violent personal attack, torture or even sexually abuse(Parekh). The truth is, we don’t want to be reminded of any of these terrible events that took away a small portion of our lives.

The term “Psychological trauma” refers to damage wrought from a traumatic event, which that damages one’s ability to cope with stressors. “Trauma” is commonly defined as an exposure to a situation in which a person is confronted with an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to self or others’ physical well-being (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Specific types of client trauma frequently encountered by which therapists and other mental health workers frequently encounter in a clinical setting include sexual abuse, physical , or sexual assault, natural disasters such as earthquakes or tsunamis, domestic violence, and school or/and work related violence (James & Gilliland, 2001). Traumatic