Trauma can be described as an individualized experience of an event. It is the person’s experience of the event that institutes the trauma and defined by the person. The distressing event overwhelms the person’s ability to cope. Jon Allen, a psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Houston, Texas and author of Coping with Trauma: A Guide to Self-Understanding (1995) reminds us that there are two components to a traumatic experience: the objective and the subjective: “It is the subjective experience of the objective events that constitutes the trauma…The more you believe you are endangered, the more traumatized you will be…Psychologically, the bottom line of trauma is overwhelming emotion and a feeling of leaving you with feelings of helplessness.
Trauma can come in a variety of forms and there are differences among the individuals that experience the trauma. The effects of trauma can be lasting for some. It is never too late to resolve an issue around trauma.
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