Ah.... why my weekends pass to quick?! I've been PLANNING to do so many things but haven't done most of that!!!!
Anyway, Start of a new week means more knowledg and experience coming up.
Here, i want to write about Trauma (PTSD) today (cuz i found interesting article : )
Well here is just a quick brief description about TRAUMA:
Trauma (From Greek τρᾶυμα = "a wound") is medically called 'PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and it mainly has 2 category; physical and psychological.
Physical trauma means to a physical injury in considerable degree. A trauma patient is someone who has suffered serious and life-threatening physical injury, with the potential for secondary complications such as shock, respiratory failure and death.
Psychological trauma is damage to the psyche that occurs as a result of a traumatic event that is often life threatening. When that trauma leads to post traumatic stress disorder, damage may involve physical changes inside the brain and to brain chemistry, which damage the person's ability to adequately cope with stress as well as inability to manage everyday life. (WIKI pedia)Both traumas are equally scary but i will focus about psychological trauma here.
I personally think a Trauma caused by Natural disaster is the hard one to cope with. For example, Tsunami happened at south Asian region, Massive earth quake at Haiti or hurricanes in USA. Because these events occur outside of human power and hardly able to avoid, it is hard to deal with. When there are no one to put blame on, or throw anger to, we people do not have place to express feelings / emotion other than mourning.
On the other hand, there are man-made(caused) trauma such as witnessing murder, abuse, domestic violence, sexual abuse, accident or bulling. In these days, this man-made trauma has been increasing as dramatic arise in reporting numbers of domestic violence, sexual abuse and school bullying. And sadly, the worst part of it is that when a trauma is untreated, it often keep creating same abusive link to next victims. For example, a sexually abused victims often become perpetrators for various reasons (some of them just wanted to experience to be a 'causing side' since they were a 'caused side' before, or some become perpetrator to pay their revenge to other innocent and powerless children) , or a child grown up with domestic violence repeat same behaviour to their children (which may create more than multiple effect). That is why it is very important to resolve the traumatic memory / experience so that the person affected by trauma can cope with it and live better life and it can also stop the link for further trauma victims.
Art Therapy is one of the powerful tool for Trauma treatment.
Art therapy is increasingly introduced for Trauma treatment especially for children. When people are in confusion / mental chaos after traumatic event, often, a lot of people lose their ability to explain things in words (not enough time to process, or inability to have enough sleep causing chemical imbalance in brain) and their emotional response maybe blocked due to defence mechanism. Art therapy is said particularly useful tool of treatment as a sensory nature of trauma. Art making involves not only active participation, but also help people express thoughts and feeling without words, become vent for their struggle in safe space, and may support sensory part of trauma processing.
I found interesting web-page about 'art therapy helping Indigenous women'. I found this particularly interesting as i am living in Australia and knowing how sensitive & challenging Indigenous issue is. Also it is very interesting and perfect idea of using art for their therapy treatment since they are well known 'art people'
this is another related link; http://www.arttherapyblog.com/ptsd/art-therapy-aids-trauma-recover-helps-indigenous-women-heal/
It is wonderful to find people finding art as a therapeutic way and getting benefit from this amazing limitless methods!
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