Trauma has many faces and means different things to different people.   Trauma renders normal people to have normal responses to events which are NOT normal.  You may clearly be feeling overwhelmed and not  thinking nearly as clearly as you think you usually do. 

Destinedforbooks.com wishes to assist you in finding useful literature to better understand your reactions and where to get further support and assistance if you need it.  Please don't be afraid to ask for support.  Trauma is not meant to be faced alone.  There is hope and assistance for you.

 Psychological trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event. A traumatic event involves a singular experience or enduring event or events that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to cope or integrate the ideas and emotions involved with that experience.

Trauma can be caused by a wide variety of events, but there are a few common aspects. It usually involves a complete feeling of helplessness in the face of a real or subjective threat to life, bodily integrity, or sanity. There is frequently a violation of the person's familiar ideas about the world, putting the person in a state of extreme confusion and insecurity.

 Typical causes of psychological trauma are abuse, violence, the threat of either, or the witnessing of either, particularly in childhood. Catastrophic events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, war or other mass violence can also cause psychological trauma. 

 However, different people will react differently to similar events. One person may perceive an event to be traumatic that another may not, and not all people who experience a traumatic event will become psychologically traumatized.  Wikipedia (Free Encyclopedia)

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Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

Book Description
Researchers have shown that survivors of accidents, disaster, and childhood trauma often endure life-long symptoms ranging from anxiety and depression to unexplained physical pain, fatigue, illness, and harmful "acting out" behaviors reflecting these painful events. Today, millions in both the bodywork and the psychotherapeutic fields are turning to Peter A. Levine’s breakthrough Somatic Experiencing™ methods to effectively overcome these challenges. In Healing Trauma, Dr. Levine gives readers the personal how-to-guide for using the theory he first introduced in his highly acclaimed work, Waking the Tiger.

About the Author
Peter A. Levine received his Ph.D. in medical and biological physics from the University of California at Berkeley, and also holds a doctorate in psychology from International University. During his 35-year study of stress and trauma, he has contributed to scientific and medical publications and served as consultant for NASA’s space shuttle project. He has taught at the Hopi Guidance Center and at hospitals, trauma centers and pain clinics throughout the world.

I'm also grateful there are many more extraordinary books on psychological trauma.  Please click on the link below and see if any of these look helpful for you.  I'd love to have you blog and let me know which books were most helpful.  The power of a book is whether it meets your needs or not.  Let us know what you think.

 Books on Trauma

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