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Facts on children who have gone through emotional trauma:
  • Struggle with upsetting emotions
  • Frightening memories
  • Sense of constant danger that can't be kicked
  • Feel numb, disconnected and unable to trust others
  • When bad things happen, they take a while to get over the pain and feel safe again.
  • Involves a threat to life or safety
  • Emotional trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events that shatter their sense of security, that causes them to feel helpless and vulnerable in a dangerous world
---->>>>A stressful event is most likely to be traumatic if:
  • It happened unexpectedly
  • You were unprepared for it
  • You were powerless to prevent it
  • It happened repeatedly
  • Someone was intentionally cruel
  • It happened in childhood
How to help them:
  • Treatment from trauma specialists
  • Support from family and friends can speed recovery
  • Make them feel safe, respected and understood
  • Give them a sense of trust and warmth
  • Give them time to heal and mourn the losses
  • Take care of health
  • Establish daily routine
  • Don't isolate them
  • Through activities that make them breath deeply, perspire and laugh
*Extra information:
Emotional trauma could also be caused by:
-Single-blow and one-time events such as
  • A horrible accident
  • A natural disaster
  • Violent attack
-Ongoing, relentless stress, such as
  • Living in a crime-ridden neighborhood
  • Struggling with cancer
-Unstable or unsafe environment
-Separation from parents
-Sexual, physical, or verbal abuse
-Domestic violence
-Serious illness
-Neglect
-Bullying
-Intrusive medical procedures

Credits:Yi Ling and Ya Wen

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