The psychological stress that we experience every day can seriously disrupt our psychological balance. There are a number of simple techniques that can help you avoid the negative effects of trauma and restore self-confidence.
Why you need to overcome everyday psychological trauma
Psychological trauma can cause significant harm to a person and radically affect his life. And this harm is usually greater than harm from physical injury.
We experience psychological trauma, for example, when we are experiencing
- loneliness,
- rejection by other people,
- fail.
The experience of these states, and it is subjective, temporarily disrupts our psychological health. And during these periods you need to treat yourself with attention, care and understanding. During these periods, you should not make important decisions. All decisions must be postponed until the moment when our psychological health is restored.
People tend to underestimate the importance of everyday emotional (psychological) stress. When a person is faced with a psychological problem, those around him usually advise him not to pay attention or “go to unwind,” which in this case is the same thing. But these tips are harmful. After all, when a person broke his arm, we do not advise him to “score” and “go to unwind”. We make sure that he heals his hand so that the bone heals properly, then we give time for rehabilitation. And only after recovery, we suggest giving a new load on the hand. The same should be done in the case of psychological trauma.
When we experience psychological trauma, we cannot objectively perceive reality and, therefore, the decisions we make are wrong. But they define our life in the same way as any other decision.
For example, when a person is experiencing loneliness, he feels that others care less about him than they really do. He may decide that people don't need him, that others don't give a damn about him. Although these feelings are wholly and completely dictated to him by psychological trauma. When a person has failed, it is easy for him to conclude that he will not achieve anything in the future, and will not even try again. Although, in reality, he should have given himself time to heal from negative experiences, and only after that decide whether he should try again or not.
According to Guy Vinch, it is for this reason that many people act below their potential. They make important decisions about themselves, their actions, their future in a state of psychological trauma, and these decisions are not adequate to reality.
How to overcome the negative consequences of psychological trauma
To avoid the negative consequences of everyday emotional trauma, it is important to maintain psychological hygiene, provide yourself and others with emergency emotional assistance. This means supporting yourself or another person and helping yourself or him to get rid of the consequences of psychological stress, to live them and move on with a clear head and with restored psychological health.
So, what measures of psychological hygiene should be taken if you are experiencing psychological trauma.
- Regain self-esteem in case of failure. Self-esteem naturally falls when we fail at work, school, and relationships. You do not need to succumb to the influence of the moment and look for your shortcomings, blame yourself even more. You need to give yourself time to go through this trauma, take care of yourself, and after the restoration of mental balance, analyze what happened.
- Treat yourself with the compassion you'd expect from a really good friend. Take care of yourself as a parent takes care of a child when he is sick. How you would like to be taken care of by someone who truly loves you.
- Fight negative thinking. Trying to distract yourself from bad thoughts that go around in your head. You need to be distracted for about two minutes or longer until you lose the urge to replay the bad thoughts in your head. Sometimes the desire to concentrate on negative experiences is very strong, but it is necessary to overcome this bad habit.
By practicing these activities regularly, you will build emotional stability, a positive attitude, and will be a more confident, open and happy person.
