Symptopms
When I feel unsafe, maybe think that someone is following me or I feel that something is going to happen to me or anyone I know.
What is Hyper-arousal?
Is an event that was or I felt it was life threatening for me, for someone I know or someone else.
What is trauma?
Is important beacause the first reaction of stress is rapid and superficial breathing
Why are breathing exercises important?
Sometimes I feel what ever happened to me is my guilt or that I could have done something else to avoid it, or maybe I feel I am not worthy because of what happened
What are distorted cognitions?
Are the reactions my system has around some stimulus that remind me of the event I experienced before.
What are post-traumatic reactions?
These are uncomfortable but they come as part of the information processing the brain does for the traumatic experience.
What are nightmares?
These are thoughts, memories, images or cinematic experiences I might have that I didn't asked for, that stay for a period of time and remind me of something I went through
What are intrusive thoughts?
Social, fight/flight, freeze
Which are the 3 types of responses to trauma?
This helps people to remember information that has been blocked or forgotten about a traumatic experience.
What is trauma processing therapy?
This happens when I (kind of) react not as expected or maybe I react over what I assume is normal for a external stimulus.
What is hyper-reactivity?
This happens when people cannot recall or remember something related to a traumatic event.
What is traumatic amnesia?
This is important because this helps us to have an idea of what reactions I'm having, when I'm having them and what triggered them. This way we can know how the system is working and then work over it.
Why is tracking important?
When I feel I'm not living reality but if I was living on a dream.
What is de-realization?
Is when I know I've been through some experiences but I realize those experiences are in the past and I'm trying to re-educate my system to lower the intensity of the reactions associated to that/those event(s).
What is becoming a survivor?
The idea of this form of therapy is to generate situations, scenes or scenarios in a safe context before experiencing them so people can identify an plan coping responses to them.
What is exposure therapy?