POST TRAUMATIC STRESS

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS

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Trauma is a psychological, emotional response to an experience that deeply brings about disturbing. Trauma can also be said to be something upset and interfere with inner peace. Trauma can be caused by a tremendously negative event that causes a lasting impact on the victim’s mental and emotional stability. Trauma can also be caused by physically violent or even psychological issues. The most common trauma source can be rape accidents, long illness, and losing a beloved one. In connection to that, this paper states how traumatic experience in childhood impacts us later in life.

Childhood trauma is much linked to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and substance use disorder that are present in the future life of adulthood. The effect of childhood trauma can affect the entire life of the child, even at old age. Parents are always advised to protect their children from trauma since they are not mature enough to take such responsibility. Most of the reported cases of suicide in children are due to trauma they get from the family issues. Trauma in the childhood stage can be controlled by preventing the children from witnessing an act of violence, anger, and aggression, too much anxiety, among others (Lis, et al, 2020). The issues children go through at an early age sometimes tresses them in the future when they are grown up; hence is said to be undergoing post-traumatic stress.

Post-traumatic stress disorder children develop a hyper-vigilant character that warns them over something bad to happen to them. The main effect of post-trauma stress disorder in children is poor self-esteem. Due to experience in their life, they grow low self-esteem and tend to stop believing in themselves (Carmassi, et al, 2020). Poor low esteem may affect them even in a classroom situation. Children also suffer from fear over everything. Those children who might have gone through an accident at a young age might be prone to fear over vehicles. Once they see the car there, the mind may remind them of the past situation they faced before. According to scientific research, children who go through trauma at an early age develop some emotional response. Their interaction with their peers becomes problems; they defend themselves by fighting other children or isolating themselves.

The children who have been brought up in a family with domestic violence are most violent in the future. Others who might go through a family with such behavior might develop a notion of avoiding attachments and `relationships. Most children may understand that relationships are the main cause of violence and then prefer to be alone for the rest of their lives. According to the study, most children brought from the family with domestic violence do not engage in relationships. The few who engage in relationships experience some domestic issues, which leads to breakups in the future (Li et al, 2020). They grow up without understanding the importance of interacting with their peer. Consequently, they develop poor interaction habits with other people, which may develop and make them so antisocial.

Early childhood trauma sometimes affects children differently in the adulthood stage. Some children understand how to deal with such situations; hence, they may never go through such cases. Nursing stress is a key issue, but nursing methods may differ from one child to another (Kalmakis, et al, 2020). This issue is mainly affected by the ecological area where the child is brought in; for instance, those children who might excess internet are likely to forget some scenarios by keeping themselves busy watching movies or listening to cool music. Consequently, those children who are from hardship areas or rural areas might keep on remembering the scenario they went through in life since they don’t have anything to them busy.

According to the research, most of the stress children are victims of family violence, which traumatizes them; hence they sneak their way to the streets. The increased number of stress children have cost the nation a lot of money in maintaining them by offering them free food, education, and medical cover (Bothe et al, 2020). Again, the government provides them open rehabilitation centers and guidance and counseling centers to better understand themselves. Through doing so, it reduces the increment of insecurity in the streets. In the developing countries, suck kind of children who suffer from traumatic stress are given guidance and counseling then taken to school (Grant et al, 2020).Unlike the third world countries, whereby those children grow in streets and become future thieves.

In conclusion, for every child well, they require parental care, guidance, and counseling. It is always the parent’s responsibility to make sure the child does not suffer from their mistakes like domestic violence. This is achievable through solving issues in an environment whereby children are not involved. Despite that preventing children from trauma, it also helps them to grow morally upright. The parents should also engage their children in a discussion of the challenges they face as they grow. It helps children in understanding life better and how to manage such situations when encountered.

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Carmassi, C., Corsi, M., Bertelli, C. A., Pedrinelli, V., Massimetti, G., Peroni, D., … & Dell’ Osso, L. (2020). Post-traumatic stress spectrum symptoms in parents of children affected by epilepsy: Gender differences. Seizure, 80, 169-174.

Grant, B. R., O’Loughlin, K., Holbrook, H. M., Althoff, R. R., Kearney, C., Perepletchikova, F., … & Kaufman, J. (2020). A multi-method and multi-informant approach to assessing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children. International Review of Psychiatry, 32(3), 212-220.

Kalmakis, K. A., Chiodo, L. M., Kent, N., & Meyer, J. S. (2020). Adverse childhood experiences, post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, and self-reported stress among traditional and nontraditional college students. Journal of American college health, 68(4), 411-418.

Lis, S., Thome, J., Kleindienst, N., Mueller‐Engelmann, M., Steil, R., Priebe, K., … & Bohus, M. (2020). Generalization of fear in post‐traumatic stress disorder. Psychophysiology, 57(1), e13422.

Li, Y., Zhou, Y., Chen, X., Fan, F., Musa, G., & Hoven, C. (2020). Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Some Recent Research Findings. In Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders-Current Advances. IntechOpen.