Why some traumatised people feel near the tipping point during lockdown and what we can do to help… just one thing!
I wanted to write this short piece for people to gain a greater understanding of what the challenges may be for some people who have experienced developmental trauma or a traumatic episode. Why would this be so? One of the aims of therapy for the traumatised client is to try and live within a window of tolerance re emotions and sensations. This is a difficult thing for the client to master as they are frequently triggered by implicit and explicit memories that hijack the central nervous system. Early on in therapy clients either live in a state of hyperarousal or hypo-arousal. Early and middle stage work is helping the client to dampen down this highly dysregulated state. Clients often feel a huge level of responsibility for things that are usually far out of their control, as well as the people-pleasing they output for personal aspects that are within their control. They live with a high level of hypervigilance and a continuous dread of terrible...
