Recovery From Childhood Trauma E-Book

Dr Stella Murphy

• Herausgeber: Dr Stella Murphy
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

RECOVERY FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA is a book that gives you insight on childhood trauma in a general sense. As you read this book, you begin to understand more about trauma:

• What it is
• How it affects your life
• Its impact on your mental health
• How to spot a traumatized child or person and help them ...

It takes you down memory lane and makes you understand the problems you had as a child due to your painful experience. Now as an adult you are probably going through some discomfort that is making your life not a lively one and you also may not know that your life is that way because of the trauma you experienced as a child. Children become adults and adults are the society. CHILDHOOD TRAUMA takes a better part of our lives as kids and even as adults, more reason why this book will help the healing process if you have started one or motivate you to take the healing route, if you haven't started yet.

Leseprobe

Recovery From Childhood Trauma

STELLA MURPHY

Copyright © 2022 Stella Murphy

All rights reserved.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my late parents James and Elizabeth Murphy.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1

REMEMBERING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

SEXUAL ABUSE

PHYSICAL ABUSE

COMMUNITY VIOLENCE

BULLYING

OTHER CAUSES OF CHILD TRAUMA

CHAPTER 3

CHILDHOOD TRAUMA TO ADULTS

CHAPTER 4

ANGER ISSUES AND MENTAL HEALTH

CHAPTER 5

A QUESTION OF IF

CHAPTER 6

HEALING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

Signs You Are Healing From Trauma

CHAPTER 7

BECOMING A SELF AWARE AND CONFIDENT ADULT

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

Young children are highly sensitive to traumatic events. Their sense of security may be compromised, terrified visual stimuli, loud noises, violent movements, and other sensations shattered associated with an unexpected and frightening event. The terrifying images tend to reoccur in the form of nightmares, new fears, and reenactment actions or play a lack of precise. Young children believe that their parents understand the relationship between cause and effect., thoughts, wishes, and fears have the ability to become real and cause events to occur. Young Children are less capable of anticipating danger or knowing how to keep themselves safe, particularly vulnerable to the effects of trauma exposure. A 2-year-old who witnesses a traumatic event, such as his mother being beaten, may interpret it very differently than a 5-year-old or an 11-year-old. Children may blame themselves or their parents for not being able to prevent or change the outcome of a frightening event. These reality distortions exacerbate the negative effects of trauma on children's development.

Little children, like older children, experience both behavioral and physiological symptoms of trauma. Young children, unlike older children, cannot express verbally whether they are afraid, overwhelmed, or helpless. However, their actions reveal important information about how they are affected and children who have experienced trauma are especially vulnerable because their brains are rapidly developing. Early childhood trauma has been linked to reduced brain cortex size. Memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thinking, language, and consciousness are all controlled by this region. These changes may have an impact on IQ and emotional regulation, and the child may become more fearful and not feel as safe or protected.

Young children rely solely on their parents/caregivers for physical and emotional survival and protection. When trauma affects the parent/caregiver as well, the relationship between that person and the child may suffer. Children who do not have the support of a trusted parent or caregiver to help them regulate their strong emotions may experience overwhelming stress, with little ability to effectively communicate what they feel or need. They frequently exhibit symptoms that parents/caregivers do not understand and may exhibit unusual behaviors that adults may not know how to appropriately respond to...