Not All Wounds Are Visible
If you have gone through a traumatic experience, you may be struggling with upsetting emotions, frightening memories, or a sense of constant danger. You may feel numb, disconnected, and unable to trust other people. When bad things happen, it can take a while to get over the pain and feel safe again. With the right treatment, self-help strategies, and support, you can speed your recovery. Whether the traumatic event happened years ago or yesterday, you can heal and move on.
The effects of childhood abuse, abusive relationships and other types of trauma can remain with you and hinder your ability to function in life and relationships. It is often difficult to accept the fact that your present difficulties may be related to something that happened long ago.
If you have gone through a traumatic experience, you may be struggling with upsetting emotions, frightening memories, or a sense of constant danger. You may feel numb, disconnected, and unable to trust other people. When bad things happen, it can take a while to get over the pain and feel safe again. With the right treatment, self-help strategies, and support, you can speed your recovery. Whether the traumatic event happened years ago or yesterday, you can heal and move on.
The effects of childhood abuse, abusive relationships and other types of trauma can remain with you and hinder your ability to function in life and relationships. It is often difficult to accept the fact that your present difficulties may be related to something that happened long ago.
Research has overwhelmingly supported the relationship between childhood, or single event trauma, with subsequent difficulties in adulthood, which often surface after long periods of dormancy.
Another unrecognized factor leading to hindrances in adult functioning is childhood neglect and abandonment. You may not have experienced outright abuse in your childhood, but you may have simply been neglected, not supported, and without someone to advocate for you as launched into adulthood. You may have experienced blatant or subtle abandonment. All these can lead to a chronic, low level of depression and anxiety or other problems such as addiction, obesity, and work related functioning.
Another unrecognized factor leading to hindrances in adult functioning is childhood neglect and abandonment. You may not have experienced outright abuse in your childhood, but you may have simply been neglected, not supported, and without someone to advocate for you as launched into adulthood. You may have experienced blatant or subtle abandonment. All these can lead to a chronic, low level of depression and anxiety or other problems such as addiction, obesity, and work related functioning.
