Mary Joye, a therapist certified in trauma therapy in private practice in Winter Haven, Florida, says that the experience of trauma constantly floods your body with stress hormones that you can’t handle.
Experiencing a traumatic event can have immediate and lasting negative effects on your physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as your relationships with others and overall well-being, according to SAMHSA. “Trauma is our body's response to what happened or didn't happen, that was too much or too little, too fast, or too overwhelming,” Rollins says. Sarah Rollins, a licensed master social worker and trauma specialist in private practice in Detroit, says that trauma isn’t so much about what happened to you but more about what happened inside you, to your nervous system, during a traumatic event. According to SAMHSA, those traumatic experiences can include exposure to natural disasters combat and various types of abuse, neglect, and violence.
According to a paper prepared by SAMHSA (PDF), trauma results from experiences of physical, emotional, or life-threatening harm, whether you’re the victim, a witness, or the loved one of someone who experienced it.
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