CAN THERAPY CHANGE THE WAY WE STORE TRAUMATIC MEMORIES?

(Here’s all that you need to know)

WHAT IS TRAUMA.

Trauma affects the functioning of the brain and leads to several neurological responses. The emotional charge of the traumatic memories affects us and can make us feel exactly how we felt the first time, even after years. It gets stored in our body in away that it turns into physical symptoms and tensions. It gets so serious with time that whenever the trauma triggers, it start affecting us mentally, physically and emotionally to the point that we find it difficult to handle it, which is the reason, therapy is the best “go to” advice.

NEED OF THERAPY FOR TRAUMA.

Therapy helps in rewiring the neural pathways by helping in reducing the emotional change and changes the way, the brain stores memories.

Coming towards the chaos of today’s generation or youth every one or the other person is going through either emotional trauma or a traumatic memory. These traumatic patches in their life makes them give up at a very early stage or can say at very early age and it hence, becomes a life tragedy for them. Giving up on life or people around you due to the trauma at a young age is literally a waste of of your “upcoming beautiful future”.

There are a lot of examples regarding mental traumas which had led to, critical life changing situations.

Recently, there was a famous BOLLYWOOD MOVIE released, OH MY GOD 2, which was all scripted and showed about, a teenage child going through a mental pressure of his genital size. The boy was bullied over an immature fact that no girl around him likes him or is interested in him just because the size of his genitals is inappropriately small. He was traumatized so much by these taunts and bullies that he started taking improper ways of increasing his genital size. Later on, he was again bullied for this fact that he has been taking such measures and also, a video of the kid was also viral in which he was talking and looking about genital sizes. Further, when the school authority got to know about this, they expelled the boy from the school. This situation traumatized the kid so badly that he tried to kill himself by taking various suicidal steps. He was extremely mugged up with this trauma that he gave up on his life at a very young age, for which his father filed a case in the court, letting the school authority and people know the importance of mental trauma, sex education and how it affects someone and how can it be looked up for. This shows that mental traumas can be extremely disruptive and it seriously needs a therapy to be looked after.

EFFECTS OF TRAUMA.

Apart from the movie example or any other case study of various trauma related events, I personally know that traumas also lead to engaging of habits like smoking, drinking, injecting drugs and so on, which leads to innumerable problems. These problems include :

• An alcoholic husband misbehaving with his wife or any alcoholic misbehaving at any place or space
• People getting into habits of smoking which leads to anxiety issues, lung problems, cancer, increased heart rate and so on
• Getting into chemical inhales lead the youth to memory loss, laziness and tiredness which refrain them from doing productive things, like being active, working or even using normal brain
• Teenagers getting into such habits due to trauma or pressure generally create bad relationship with their family or well wishers due to anger issues, frustration and so on which ultimately end up by making them take wrong decisions in life

And the real ideology is, that all these example calls for the significant need of therapy. Be it any age, a proper therapy when its needed, has to come in context and priority before it  becomes a poison to you.

THERAPY IS THE BEST SOLUTION!

Therapy on a perfect note helps traumatic memories by reframing how patients perceive their life and memories overall, with the help of a therapist who is actively listening, offering connection and positive feedback through which patient creates a chronological narrative of their life, including both traumatic and positive experiences.

There are some very special ways by which therapists help people cope up with their traumatic memories. These are :

1. PROLONGED EXPOSURE (PE) 
2. COGNITIVE PROCESSING THERAPY (CPT)
3. TRAUMA-FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY (TF-CBT)
4. EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING (EMDR)

Talking about therapy, hers’s introducing you to the best multi speciality hospital with the best psychiatrists. Rajeshwar Hospital, located in Kankarbagh, Patna comes up with one of the best psychiatrists helping the patients with different types of therapy providing solutions to all problems for people of all ages.

A comfortable space with effective medications is really necessary for any kind of therapy session. I hope everyone should take the matter of traumas very seriously and get consulted from the best hospitals or therapists before it becomes a bane to their life.