Trauma and Phobias
Trauma
Trauma is an experience of overwhelming stress. Even when the initial experience is over, it can still lead to ongoing problems coping with everyday life. It leads to heightened anxiety, withdrawal from positive relationships and activities, fear of further trauma occurring, and sometimes to phobias. Trauma is best dealt by empathic and understanding counselling which allows the traumatised person to express the emotions which have often become suppressed and immobilised by the traumatic events.
Phobias
A phobia is a fear of a situation, particular object or animal, or activity which is not normally feared by others. Phobias can be overcome by a combination of understanding or insight. Support in undergoing a gradual program taking action against the phobia can, over time, remove it and allow the person to have a freer and fuller life. Sometimes deeper issues behind the phobia can emerge, giving the person an opportunity to deal with these in a healing environment.
Trauma is an experience of overwhelming stress. Even when the initial experience is over, it can still lead to ongoing problems coping with everyday life. It leads to heightened anxiety, withdrawal from positive relationships and activities, fear of further trauma occurring, and sometimes to phobias. Trauma is best dealt by empathic and understanding counselling which allows the traumatised person to express the emotions which have often become suppressed and immobilised by the traumatic events.
Phobias
A phobia is a fear of a situation, particular object or animal, or activity which is not normally feared by others. Phobias can be overcome by a combination of understanding or insight. Support in undergoing a gradual program taking action against the phobia can, over time, remove it and allow the person to have a freer and fuller life. Sometimes deeper issues behind the phobia can emerge, giving the person an opportunity to deal with these in a healing environment.