Essays About Trauma

In the realm of mental health there are still underserved populations not being provided with the needed mental health resources and care. One such population is adolescents dealing with complex trauma. One way that the needs of this population could be met is the implementation...

Introduction This essay is going to be exploring how trauma during childhood can possibly cause mental health problems later in adult life. It is now widely accepted that distressing and traumatic events during childhood can cause mental health issues, and often very serious disorders. Such...

Trauma is a tricky thing. It hurts people deeply, and then tricks them into believing they have forgotten about it or have overcome it. It nests deep within a person’s soul, perched between fragile emotions and memories, contaminating its surroundings until its effects manifest in...

An impulsive change of emotions came over me which was irreversible. All over sudden, concerns and questions of worldly prestige, life success, and financial status become irrelevant all at once. The increased wave of flames and smoke, caused congestion in my lungs affecting my normal...

Arnekrans et al. (2018) state that childhood trauma is also known as developmental trauma and this refers to numerous amounts of stressful experiences in child development. Many of these stressful experiences consist of divorce, family violence, parental substance abuse, and physical, psychological, or sexual abuse....

Trauma is a ghost, and memories can be haunting. Each has the ability to drive a person to madness, or to inspire a certain enlightened strength in him. The capacity of someone to act with resilience, despite the severity of his detriment, determines the ways...

Trauma and suicide behaviour histories among a Canadian indigenous population: an empirical exploration of the potential role of Canada’s residential school system. Most institutions operated with the vision of providing learners with social skills and vocational training to acquire employment and easily assimilate into the...

During times of war soldiers experience horrific atrocities that are mentally and physically crippling. Most cannot begin to comprehend these sinister and morbid images due to their lack of military experience. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, the main character is Billy Pilgrim, who serves the United...

Dissociative amnesia is characterized by forgetting an event with a high negative charge. There are traumatic experiences that can mark us for life. These can change many aspects of our lives and relationships. Intense suffering produces a strong impact, and in order to protect our...

When considering the notion of sexual encounters in prison, perhaps two key concepts come into mind: secrecy and aggression. With the aid of mass media, life behind bars has been portrayed as a world of danger, in which dominance has to be asserted for the...

In the absence of human companionship, children are exposed to all sorts of traumas and repression eventually causing them to cope with reality in harmful ways. It is crucial, primarily in the adolescent years, that children experience a warm loving home so they can manage...

In the book of Job, God portrays the Christian sufferers and how he interprets agony from his perspective. Job makes distinctions for us regarding suffering and God also makes promises to his people after the end of their torture. Job questions God on how he...

Memory is one of the most controversial issues in psychology, raising questions over whether memory should be trusted as evidence in a court of law. In 1980 the DSM-III supported the existence of dissociative amnesia; a recognized inability to remember personal information that is particularly...

Introduction Throughout the years, concussions have become much more prevalent and very life threatening because of the evolution of sports and the limit on how far equipment can be advanced. Each year athletes are finding ways to become bigger, faster and stronger and better at...

There are many different types of fear. Many people are afraid of spiders, of heights, or of public speaking. Many women have an innate fear of men. The public shares concern and anxiety of terrorists, bombs, a corrupt government, and plagues. Small children are often...

Introduction Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a serious mental disorder which can be diagnosed in a patient with at least two split and distinct personalities within him. The mental disorder has been known as hiddenness disease and its availability frequency is higher than other mental...

Upon arrival in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel and his companions are shocked by unspeakable atrocities, and quickly are reduced to instinct. “We no longer clung to anything. The instincts of self-preservation, of self-defense, of pride, had all deserted us” (36). The lack of humanity shown to...

It is not uncommon for the pain of physical trauma to transcend into mental trauma as well. This can be seen in Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky, in which she describes the aftermath of a brutal rape. Although she was physically hurt by the man that...

Concussions are a problem. They are serious, life altering injuries. Since the beginning of the game of rugby there have been people ‘getting their bell rung’. Only recently has the Global Governing Body of World Rugby understood the severity of rugby related head injuries, like...

The autobiographical graphic novel Persepolis follows the journey of Marjane Satrapi’s life as she experiences the dangers of the Iran war. Satrapi’s narrative provides a personal look into life during the Iran war, following her throughout not only her childhood in Iran but into her...

Throughout the past two decades there have been more than 20 National Football League (NFL) player suicides, like Terry Long, Dave Duerson and Junior Seau. Finding a link between these suicides and playing pro football is the reason behind an ongoing joint study being done...

Handling an emergency is always a difficult task where especially considering the fact that these events are not always planned. Even though the response teams are always prepared to deal with these cases they face a significant challenge considering that each emergency is different from...

The aftermath of genocide and mass violence has become a popular topic of interest over time. Genocide and episodes of mass violence have the ability to impact relationships between diverse groups of people and conflict. Genocide has a major impact on nations, ethnic group and...

Abstract Stress. We all experience it is our daily lives. Whether you are at the top of a roller coaster that’s about to drop, going on your very first date, or even having your first-born child. There are many different types of stress. Stress can...

In recent years, the increased number of concussions experienced by those under the age of 18 has simultaneously encourage its controversy. However, as pediatrician Stephen M. Rothman argues, this has been a movement formed under false pretenses, since there is no way the injuries experienced...

Abstract Hip and pelvis damages are not the prevalent causes for pain within the general population. Nevertheless, a majority of these ailments bring substantially related disease that makes them vital within the extent or range of musculoskeletal care. It is important to point out that...

Contact sports are one of the many things that define America. Many students throughout America start playing contact sports at very young ages. With the playing of these contact sports, there is a high risk for concussion. Concussions are mild traumatic brain injuries that can...

Concussions have been a hot topic for the past few years, with more evidence coming to light all the time of the damaging and long term consequences that come from them. The most popular definition of a concussion is “any disturbance in brain function caused...