Trauma and Trauma Reactions
An event that overwhelms a person's ability to cope. They may fear for their physical or emotional safety.
Trauma
Are there changes in our body when we experience stress, danger, or trauma?
Yes!
Talk it out and problem solve in respectful and calm tone of voice.
Is someone with a mental health condition a bad person?
No!
It is like cold, people do not choose to get sick but sometimes it can impact their behavior and that may negatively impact their friends, family, or others.
It can often cause a lot of emotional pain struggling with a mental health disorder or condition.
Showing you love someone through buying things for them and giving gifts
Gifts
Name three events that could potentially be traumatic
Car/bike crash, dog bite, scary or painful medical procedure, physical abuse, parental conflict, domestic violence, verbal or emotional abuse
When your brain alerts possible danger or stress, your body reacts in three possible ways (called the three Fs)
Fight, Flight, Freeze
(Your body prepares to fight off a predator or dangerous situation, run away, or freeze to not be detected)
Unhealthy relationship.
What is hoarding?
Difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them. A person with hoarding disorder experiences distress at the thought of getting rid of the items. Excessive accumulation of items, regardless of actual value, occurs which can negatively impact the home environment, friends and family.
Showing you love someone with hugs, kisses, cuddles etc.
Physical Touch
If someone hurts another person's body hard enough to injure it possibly resulting in bruises, cuts, burns or broken bones.
Physical Abuse
How does our heart rate change?
Heart rate increases to pump more blood thought our body (preparing to fight, flight, or freeze).
Using mean language, yelling, insulting, verbal put downs and name calling or verbal threats.
Unhealthy or Abusive
What are some of the negative impacts of hoarding behavior and hoarding disorder?
An unclean or unsafe environment.
We feel good when our spaces are clean, clear of excess stuff, easy to move around, and organized. If places are cluttered with too much stuff, it can not only be dirty and potentially dangerous, but can also make our home feel chaotic.
Showing you love someone by spending time together and doing enjoyable activities together.
Quality Time
Name emotional reactions people may have after experiencing a traumatic event.
Sad, angry, scared, worried, confused...
How does our breathing change?
Our breathing or respiration rate increases (breathing speeds up and may become more shallow) to get oxygen to our muscles.
Getting into another person's personal space without permission, pushing, slapping, or hitting.
Unhealthy or Abusive (if the physical actions cause injury to the other person, this is abusive).
If this is a pattern with one person often doing these things to the other, this is abusive.
Can someone with hoarding disorder get better?
Yes! People can get therapy!
Showing you love someone by doing things for them.
Acts of Service.
Name some ways that your thinking and behavior might change after a traumatic event.
thoughts- intrusive thoughts and memories, might have flashbacks, might change way think of themselves, others, or the world
behaviors- may behave irritably, start fights, withdraw and isolate, may sleep a lot or not enough...
Which part of the brain is the alarm system, looking our for stress and danger? (Hint: it starts with an "A")
Amygdala.
The Amygdala also stores emotional memories like trauma memories so that it can learn how to recognize danger and protect itself in the future.
One person trying to control the other person, using verbal and physical abuse to harm the other person.
Abusive relationship.
Hoarding Disorder is related to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What do the words "obsessive" and "compulsive" refer to?
Bonus 200 points: What percentage of people struggle with hoarding disorder?
Obsessive- re-ocurring distressing thoughts
Bonus: 5%
Showing you love someone through your words, like saying "I love you" or complimenting them.
Words of Affirmation