How trauma impacts our everyday communication

The concept of psychological trauma is familiar to everyone and has became overused. But for people, who experienced tremendous stress their experience never became a past, it is their here-and-now reality. 

Hypersensitivity to touch, loud sounds, and personal space is one of the characteristic features of psychological trauma. Violating one's own boundaries in any way, such as being overly polite or giving advice. perceived as an attack. The psyche seems to freeze in a state of anticipation of danger.

Trauma disrupts many continuums, the flow of life in its links of past-present-future, breaks through the continuum of personality - our ideas about ourselves: "what can I do, what am I able to do?" subject to testing; the functions and roles that we perform are especially clearly visible in immigration "who am I now?"

Disruption of social continuity is very noticeable both in social networks and in personal communication - people can be perceived as hostile, new connections require a lot of effort, and "theirs" are received in full, sometimes simply because it is possible. The method is quite easy, but the accumulated tension and aggression must be channeled somewhere. But, at the same time, the "human factor" - the presence, participation and warmth of people is the biggest and most effective healing component.

What we can do is to be attentive and more caring to ourselves, notice what has changed, what worries us, ask for help if necessary. Go to people. Try to rebuilt healing human connections. 

I can support you on this journey.