04/30/2017
TRAUMATIC
Concept of Trauma
Desiring a concept that could be shared among the many constituencies groups, practitioners, researchers and trauma survivors have all agreed that individual trauma results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and mental, physical, social emotional, or spiritual well-being
Most times trauma is not known to an individual who has been going through, just enough to survive, thinking hoping will the pain ever end? For me dark times has been the times that I felt no one cared or would you imagine me, as a trauma survivor, even I myself did not know I was a survivor of traumatic life experiences, which had me uneducated that there was help for easing my feeling of shame, low self-esteem, and self-worth, I managed to complete high school upon spending several years in a group home for emotionally disturb youth, even the tag has stigma written all over it, after leaving the group home setting at age (14)I had the responsibility to help my mother raise my four brothers and sisters.
Could you imagined my situation, I believe my traumatic life started at the age (5) my first traumatic experience was when I was hit by a car while racing across the street with a friend to the neighborhood park, the incident placed me in a coma, for six months but thank God, had it not been that the accident happen in front of our family Pastor, home and how he came visit me hospital which seem like everyday, he prayed me out of the coma, words could not express my gratitude for him having an unshakable faith, with head injuries so sever I slept in a baby’s crib until age (6),and another two year without the ability to talk, but when I started again talking, my next incident with trauma was the physical abuse from my father, who beat me untiled I bled, I still bear the lingering scares on my body today, also being sexually molested by a family member. These instance of trauma, are still hurtful to talk about, but if it had not been for the Lord on my side, I could have been the one who wanted to take his life, but God, is a healer, delivered, and his son Jesus, told me he love me, while the times I was locked up in seclusion rooms, or in prison, I know the power of God, and the sacrifice of his only begotten son Jesus, he love me, I’m writing to start a dialogue to share story’s on how it’s possible to overcome, from brokenness, console a wounded spirit, have victory even in the midst of the storm, more importantly to let others know they are not alone, Please leave comments