I am going to discuss again a few processes I have gone into in other articles but highlighting it from a different angle – so bear with with me.
Depression is one of the leading mental illnesses of today albeit only 10% of those seek active help (I would say in most cases depression is directly linked to PTSD and Developmental Trauma). Ten percent really isn't that much.
Post-Traumatic Stress has been around for eons, it is not something new, however there still seems to be a taboo or non-acceptance around it. Both on the individual level and collectively. Admitting one needs help on an emotional/mental level is a big step to make. Making that first step and setting that intention to heal is the catalyst to the whole process of finding a sense of peace in oneself again.
So why then is it so hard?
When we go through trauma we disconnect with apart of ourselves. We give up a sense of our integrity in order to survive, in order to deal with the overwhelm that floods our body-mind systems. To be overwhelmed, by an incident (PTSD), several incidences (complex PTSD) or period (developmental trauma), is where you are out of control and in a state of helplessness. That is your first step in disconnection from integrity. The emotions that follow from there, as an attempt to deal with the overwhelm, are anger, fear, sadness, grief, guilt and shame, blame, self-reproach, and often a mixture of those.
Trauma disconnects us from an integrated sense of self. It is a splitting of one's identity (I mentioned this before as dissociation). On a corresponding physical and energetic level it is referred to as a trauma vortex in SE and an energy cyst in SER.
Read here for the rest of the article.....:
http://www.post-traumata.com/the-identity-of-PTSD-why-we-do-not-seek-help-when-we-most-need-it.html
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