What impressed me most about this chapter was "The impact of childhood trauma on disease and problem behavior in adulthood." Research speculates on the impact of childhood trauma on a person's physical health 50 years later. The subjects (i.e., the research subjects) were mostly middle class, with an average age of 57 years.
Why do some people become addicted to smoking, alcoholism, and drugs?
may be related to trauma. Childhood trauma is buried deep in their memory. When such traumatic memories are evoked, they will be very painful and need to use tobacco and alcohol to numb themselves, and use drugs or indulgent sex to calm their inner trauma.
Others resort to self-mutilation or suicide to resolve their inner pain.
Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder
1, intrusive flashbacks/re-experiencing
Intrusive flashbacks are like watching a movie in your mind, as soon as you close your eyes (or even when you open your eyes) you will see what you have experienced The most frightening images of traumatic events. These images may appear again and again, as if returning to the scene of a traumatic event, causing injury again and again.
2, Avoidance
Avoidance means that the person involved avoids trauma-related stimuli, and even displays a state of numbness, a state of psychotic denial, as if the incident never happened.
3. Hyperarousal
includes insomnia, reduced sleep or reduced sleep quality, because the individual is always in a state of heightened alertness and is ready to respond to fight-flight at any time. All the muscles in their body are in a state of tension, which makes them irritable and their attention is very concentrated in the short term, but in the long term, it becomes lax.
4, dissociation
Dissociation refers to symptoms of dissociation, including depersonalization (depersonalization), derealization (derealization), trance, forgetfulness and lack of time.
Depersonalization: For example, Xu Kaiwen said that one of his visitors had an "out-of-body experience" when his father beat him, watching the man being whipped with a whip and his father beating him. This is depersonalization. a manifestation of. This dissociative symptom helps the physically abused person get through or isolate themselves from the physical pain.
Reality Disintegration: Xu Kaiwen’s own experience. After returning to Beijing from Wenchuan, while waiting for the traffic light, all he could think about was the ruins of the disaster area. It was vaguely like seeing a desolate scene, like a layer of frosted glass.
Trance: Not knowing what you are doing, suddenly losing awareness and control of yourself. While driving, I unknowingly exceeded 120km/h and didn't know how to accelerate.
Dissociation also includes forgetfulness and a sense of lack of time.
The highest level of dissociation is depersonalization. So uncomfortable that you have to split your personality to cope - multiple personality disorder .
June 29, 2022
The feeling of life is bitter.
The days are like summer, hot.
Some people say that summer is the harvest season.
hopes that we all live up to the time.
