3 Signs of Unprocessed Trauma

Unprocessed trauma can result from any event that makes someone feel threatened or in danger.

Symptoms of unprocessed trauma often emerge in disruptive physical, emotional, or psychological symptoms.

Trauma imprints

That’s the imprint of trauma: an event makes you feel threatened or in danger and overwhelms you with panic and fear.

It doesn’t matter if the danger is real or imagined. The feelings left behind by trauma won’t be reasoned with. Trauma is immune to logic.

Symptoms of unprocessed trauma frequently emerge as:

Physical symptoms: heart palpitations, sweating, or shaking

Emotional symptoms: panic, feeling trapped or terrified

Psychological symptoms: avoidance of situations that trigger the trauma

Source: Psychology Today

Broken things...

If there is no access (or very limited access) to the resources and tools necessary to guide oneself towards health and growth, a person's internal world can, unfortunately, become filled with broken objects that seem beyond repair.

Thus, things (particularly bonds and relationships) are damaged or simply thrown away, rather than repaired (note that, yes, sometimes, SOME bonds and relationships are simply beyond repair, but that is not the same as believing that EVERYTHING that is damaged is irreparable).

You'd be surprised how many seemingly irreparable things can be repaired in therapy.

Likewise, there is space to mourn for those that unfortunately cannot be repaired, because life is made of broken, damaged, mended, repaired and irreparable things.

Stay safe, stay happy, stay you. - Izzy 💛