Expecting trauma victims to quickly go back to normal is unrealistic and harmful to recovery. Here's how to be supportive instead.
Trauma robs people of their comfortable assumption of safety and deposits profound fears of future danger.experiences always center around feeling helpless in the face of deeply distressing events, and many times the aftereffects are postponed until the victim is “safely” out of survival mode.
To complicate matters, those who experience chronic, or ongoing, trauma find themselves constantly warring with “what was” versus “what may be.” Stuck in a sort of limbo, with constant attempts to find safe footing, these individuals are forced to discover the real “new normal.” Unfortunately, this journey is not easily ended and is a marathon, not a sprint.
To understand what is required in healing from trauma, more people need to first recognize the bloody footprint it leaves on their lives. Pretending nothing happened may work in the moment to reduce agitation and intense, but in the long run, it’s a slow-burning catastrophe that will erupt at exactly the wrong moment, seemingly in response to nothing. Trauma’s power lies in its slow-release mechanism, measuring out pain and heartache in small doses over long periods of time.
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