Every once in a while I hear stories from clients that absolutely turn my stomach. I am a positive guy who sometimes lives in a rosie world where everybody is caring and loving towards each other, when I hear evidence of the contrary, my rosie bubble bursts.
A person came in who's parents did the unthinkable to her, and as a young adult was brutilized - I am trying to spare all the gorey details. For years she used drugs to keep the flashbacks away. Now sober all the memories are flooding back to her with one exception - the early abuse in her childhood.
The mind is an amazing thing. It tends to numb itself out during extraordinary times - especially when the brain is maturing. It is normal for those who suffered abuse in their early years to blank it out of memory to a certain extent. Another client today told me on their 18th birthday, memories of abuse surfaced and his mental illness began.
What can a person do when they suffered horrible abuse? For this particular person it had only been drug abuse and psychiatric medication. As I went step by step on what he/she needed to do I was met with amazement! They couldn't believe that somebody took the time to explain the dynamics of mental illness and the steps on how to heal.
There are wonderful therapies created to handle trauma. The brief therapy model was created at the end of world war II for the thousands of veterans returning from war. Object Relations and Gestalt therapies are targeted for emotional work. My speciality is Spiritual Psychology in which Love becomes the ultimate healing force. "When Love is applied to our hurt, we heal."
Check out "Crisis Management: Step by Step" on Amazon.com a book written by myself. It breaks down the steps to trauma relief.
As for the two patients I met with today, they had renewed hope and left with a smile.
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