Did You Know Fear Is a Trauma Response

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Did You Know Fear Is a Trauma Response - Mended Light

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Did You Know Fear Is a Trauma Response - Mended Light//
Did you know fear is a trauma response? We all experience trauma in our lives and sometimes if it isn't healed, we will continue to have trauma responses to it. One of those responses is fear. Fear can be there to protect us too but this response can be from past trauma. Click the video now to watch how and learn how to deal with the struggle of fear or anxiety.
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@91splamy 3 жыл бұрын

Music helps pull me out of sadness. Also I’ve been working on organizing my house so that my home is a calming space.

@MendedLight 3 жыл бұрын

That's fantastic :) Music helps me through a lot as well.

@ashleyseed7237 2 жыл бұрын

If you really like music, I’d suggest “the heart is a muscle” by gang of youths.

@bookgirl0869 3 жыл бұрын

Dancing or Video games help when I get fearful at home. or watching a movie that I've seen before. Still need to work on controlling fear at work.

@MendedLight 3 жыл бұрын

Great techniques! Are you able to listen to music as you work?

@luciacuevas611 2 жыл бұрын

I was bullied from age 4 to 15, and that has mainly manifested in anxiety, specially anxiety around social interactions and situations, yet I'm an extrovert by nature. I also get easily depressive when I haven't met with friends or done outdoor social activities for a few days, I start to lose grasp of reality and overthink, and get stuck in escapism and hopelessness. I'm not driving towards any point here, I just felt like writing it somewhere.

@user-lv8rf9tm1f Жыл бұрын

Relates. How are you doing?

@myriamtrepanier4360 2 жыл бұрын

When i get stressed and i'm alone, i like to sing or talk. Even if nobody ear me, i like to sing my favorites songs or talk about something that i like. I do it for myself, to release my mind. It's not important for me that someone listen.

@debfryer2437 2 жыл бұрын

I was diagnosed with Complex PTSD last year triggered by the breakdown of society and rioting. I have developed 5 autoimmune diseases over the past decade. I had no idea how much anxiety I was experiencing for years and reached a point where everything was causing me to stress. I am reading The Body Keeps the Score, and am in trauma therapy and EMDR therapy. I recommend EMDR as it seems to be digging out the unstable foundation my entire life was built on. Nobody understands what has happened or is happening to me. I had 6 emergency room visits this summer and have had over 20 panic attacks since 4July. The hospital staff on the whole don’t want people like me at the emergency room. I now understand that despite decades of insight therapy and all kinds of self help, trauma has a way of holding on to people. All of this on top of a complete recovery from bipolar disorder without drugs. This has been a refining experience to be sure. I have spent my entire life in survival mode. It’s very exhausting.

@tinad8561 2 жыл бұрын

Did EMDR help your attacks? Doctors sent me to a therapist after I did half a year of tachycardia/fainting/fatigue; the therapist said she thought it was biological not psychological, and intimated I was a bad candidate for EMDR, so I didn’t push it.

@TBIhope Жыл бұрын

I have layers of trauma, but as I work through the layers of trauma, I experience more trauma. The good news is that I also learn better strategies for coping with trauma as I experience more. Like for example, on August 29, 2022, my car was totaled by a drunk driver. I survived by the grace of God. Like seriously. It was a crazy situation. But I knew that I needed to get back to driving on that road ASAP to lessen the chances of that road being trauma-inducing for me.

@ashleyseed7237 2 жыл бұрын

What if your trauma isn’t one event? What if it’s a whole lot of small events that keep happening? Is it still trauma?

@laurenh9678 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not an expert … but yes. It’s still trauma. Sometimes there’s an inciting incident - a one time event (the kind we all think of when we hear the word Trauma) that changed the way you saw the world (safe to unsafe). Sometimes you never felt you had a safe place to begin with and can’t really imagine what it’s like to not feel scared or terrified in your living environment. I read once that the singular events are like “big T” traumas and the small repetitive moments are like “little t” trauma. The “little t” traumas accrue and build up over time and can be just as “big” or impactful as a singular event. Though from personal experience, I think it’s harder to own and accept that what you’ve experienced is “real” trauma, because you just have a lot of feelings of fear and anxiety and perhaps you don’t feel like you have a “good reason” to feel that way? That’s how I felt for a long time. What I discovered was that invalidating my feelings about emotional abuse/trauma didn’t allow me to heal. Not accepting that what I’d experienced was traumatic (denying it and avoiding naming it) didn’t help healing either. Understanding that the symptoms/fallout I was experiencing, the fear and anxiety and avoidance, are evidence that the trauma was real and accepting that it wasn’t my fault or my responsibility to take accountability for other people’s actions - did help with healing. Way more than you asked, but I hope it’s helpful.

@senseivonwistalia8452 3 жыл бұрын

But what if that event is undenyibly going to happen again. I don't see how it is possible to get over it then.

@MendedLight 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent question. I think we should do a whole video just on that.

@LayAnn Ай бұрын

God has been my only way to get through. I have had trauma in my life since the day I was born, no joke. Im a rape baby, locked in a room for hours unattended, taken and put in foster home at 2 yrs old, adopted at 6yrs old, bullied my whole life, left parents house on traumatic terms, married and was abused my entire marriage, divorcing now, still have trauma from parents in some ways. God is the only one who got me through. I may have also finally found a safe space in a man as well who knows everything and loves me despite it all. Im so sick of the trauma and pain, I just want something to go right for once. Im just hoping and praying I finally can have the trauma free life I crave. It's a wonder to me and only by the grace of God that despite all this trauma and hurt, I still have tons of love and am not fully bitter or jaded by it all.

@amyoung101 Жыл бұрын

Trigger land mines 😂 So happy to have a way to contextualize this phenomenon 🥰

@melissastewart8060 10 ай бұрын

I've watched about five videos this morning on trauma, and every time Alicia or Jonathan has said 'warning system' my body has started to go into fight or flight. I fear it going off now b/c it goes off now all the time with just the thought of me fearing it going off. I hate this. I hate all of this.

@MichaelAllen-po4eo Жыл бұрын

The advice in this video is only helpful for combat veteran type PTSD (i.e. "single serving" trauma), but doesn't help with C-PTSD, as C-PTSD is a developmentally induced deficit in healthy emotions, mentality, and encompasses issues of personal worth, identity, shame, etc. I read the video title and was hoping to learn things about why I'm in my early 40s and still can't decide which direction to go vocationally, and maybe hear about the fear of setting life goals, etc.

@OliviaWood14 3 жыл бұрын

For step 1 and 2, do you have any recommendations if meditation tends to just bring all bad memories and thoughts to the front and trigger something like a panic attack?

@MendedLight 3 жыл бұрын

I would meet with a qualified therapist (who you feel that you can trust and connect with) and start working through this. You may have issues that you need to process and heal from, and they can help guide you and support you through this. You are welcome to contact us, if you would like us to help, but of course it doesn't need to be us. There are many amazing therapists out there! Just choose one that you like and feel safe with.

@OliviaWood14 3 жыл бұрын

@@MendedLight Thank you. A video about how to go about choosing a therapist would maybe be a good idea for the future as well :)