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A 3 page paper on trauma as it involves disempowerment and disconnection. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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getting into an automobile accident, or it could come from something more serious such as being raped. It could involve losing a loved one or being involved in war. One
author notes that trauma can involve "hysteria, combat neurosis (shell shock), captivity, torture, political terror, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence" (Growth House, Inc., 2006). Each individual is perhaps different
in relationship to what kind of event it would take to bring to a point of trauma, but in most cases the impacts of trauma are ultimately the same. Trauma
involves the condition of disempowerment and disconnection. The following paper examines these conditions and how these conditions could actually prove to be catalysts for transformation. Trauma
As mentioned, trauma can come in many different forms, in relationship to events that will cause a traumatic reaction in an individual. In todays, American,
society the reaction is often deemed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. What trauma does is essentially make people feel they are without power or ability. They may begin suffering from
mental conditions where they experience panic attacks, or wherein they overreact to many situations, never really feeling they are a part of anything. In essence they generally become disempowered and
disconnected. The condition of disempowerment indicates that the individual who experienced something traumatic has no power. For example, a woman who was
raped will feel she has no control over what happens to her as she was forcibly controlled. She will feel she has no power in any given situation in life,
be it simple or complex. She has been violated in a way that was uncontrollable and thus she puts this sense of helplessness into all that takes place afterwards. The
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