What is trauma ? What's happening when The Body Keeps the Score ?
top of page

What is trauma ? What's happening when The Body Keeps the Score ?

What is trauma ?

Bessel van der Kolk, the author of “The Body Keeps the Score” explains.

Produced by Big Think.


Contrary to popular belief, trauma is extremely common. We all have jobs, life events, and unpleasant situations causing us daily stress. But when your body continues to re-live that stress for days, weeks, months, or even years, that stress changes your brain, creating trauma inside your mind, and that trauma can eventually manifest in your physical body.


As you can see, trauma isn’t what happens to you, but how you respond to the traumatic situation.


Something that is traumatic to one person may be no big deal to the next. Whether something becomes traumatic or not has a great deal to do with who’s around you while you experience this event.

Were you alone and scared, were you comforted by friends and family?


The problem with trauma is that it starts when something happens to us, but that’s not where it stops - it changes your brain.

Once your brain changes and you’re in constant fight or flight mode, it can be hard to stay focused, feel joy, or experience pleasure until this trauma is healed.


Luckily, modern psychological practices are developing innovative ways to heal from trauma that actually work.

 

About Bessel van der Kolk:

Bessel van der Kolk is a psychiatrist noted for his research in the area of post-traumatic stress since the 1970s. His work focuses on the interaction of attachment, neurobiology, and developmental aspects of trauma’s effects on people. His major publication, Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society, talks about how the role of trauma in psychiatric illness has changed over the past 20 years. Dr. van der Kolk is past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School, and Medical Director of the Trauma Center at JRI in Brookline, Massachusetts. He has taught at universities and hospitals across the United States and around the world, including Europe, Africa, Russia, Australia, Israel, and China. Check out Bessel van der Kolk's latest book, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” at https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Sco...  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Read more of our stories on trauma: Trauma in childhood leads to empathy in adulthood►►

https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/child... Been traumatized? Here's how PTSD rewires the brain►► https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/bee... PTSD Doesn’t Only Reside in the Brain►► https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/pts... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Version traduite en français.


Contrairement à la croyance populaire, les traumatismes sont extrêmement fréquents.

Nous avons tous des emplois, des événements de la vie et des situations désagréables qui nous causent un stress quotidien.

Mais lorsque votre corps continue de revivre ce stress pendant des jours, des semaines, des mois, voire des années, ce stress modifie votre cerveau, créant un traumatisme dans votre esprit, et ce traumatisme peut éventuellement se manifester dans votre corps physique.


Comme vous pouvez le constater, le traumatisme n’est pas ce qui vous arrive, mais la façon dont vous réagissez à la situation traumatisante.


Quelque chose qui est traumatisant pour une personne peut ne pas être grave pour une autre.


Que quelque chose devienne traumatisant ou non dépend en grande partie de la personne qui vous entoure pendant que vous vivez cet événement.


Étiez-vous seul et effrayé, avez-vous été réconforté par vos amis et votre famille ?


Le problème du traumatisme, c’est qu’il commence quand quelque chose nous arrive, mais il ne s’arrête pas là : il modifie votre cerveau.


Une fois que votre cerveau change et que vous êtes constamment en mode combat ou fuite, il peut être difficile de rester concentré, de ressentir de la joie ou d’éprouver du plaisir jusqu’à ce que ce traumatisme soit guéri.


Heureusement, les pratiques psychologiques modernes développent des moyens innovants de guérir des traumatismes qui fonctionnent réellement.



  • Facebook
  • TikTok

SofaTV Network is a content curation site.
Content curation (etymologically from the Latin curare: to take care and from the English content curation or data curation) is a practice that consists of selecting, editing and sharing the most relevant content on the Web for a given request or subject. Curation is used and claimed by sites that wish to offer greater visibility and better readability to content (texts, documents, images, videos, sounds, etc.) that they deem useful to Internet users and whose sharing can help them or interest them.

Sofa Tv Network is optimized for desktop and tablet computers. We still work on the mobile version.
SofaTv also invites you to connect your devices to your big screen for quality listening. Enjoy our proposals.

SofaTv.ca

© 2023 par SofaTv.ca

bottom of page