Trauma Recovery and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Trauma and PTSD Recovery Select the chip to return to the main navigation page. Trauma has been described as a profound deviation from normal life experience. This impacts normal emotional functioning later in life. Ongoing stress will produce PTSD in children later in life, adults generally only develop PTSD in response to specific traumatic events or a series of traumatic events.
People naturally develop coping mechanisms when they have been traumatized.
These are learned survival skills, which work to protect the psyche during and immediately following the trauma. Eventually these coping mechanisms work against healthy emotional functioning. This is the mind's way of attempting to rework the trauma based attachment. Trauma recovery attempts to bring these trauma based attachments into consciousness and learn new coping skills. That was then, this is now - today I can take care of myself and make healthier choices.