Lets look into ourselves

 


In my previous piece, I discussed how seeking healthy as well as unhealthy external validation affects your mental health in the long run, as well as your daily functioning. Let's speak about how to evaluate, introspect, and comprehend your behaviors, reactions to criticism, and the underlying causes of your emotions today. 

Let us first examine where our emotions come from and what types of emotions we can experience on a regular basis. Anger, anxiety, fear, trauma or emotional memory, and social cognition are some of the emotions we all experience to varying degrees. Our limbic system, which is part of our nervous system, controls and regulates all of these feelings. 

When it comes to our nervous system, it has been divided into three parts: the Central Nervous System (CNS), the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), and the Autonomous Nervous System (ANS). Because the limbic system is so closely linked to the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system (hormones), it plays a crucial role in dealing with stressful responses and stressful surroundings. As a result, when a person experiences a traumatic event, even if the conscious mind wishes to forget it, the emotions are still registered by the nervous system, and one becomes trapped in a trauma loop that affects behavior, nature, and makes you more sensitive to emotions and criticism. Trauma can begin at any age, and sometimes even when you are still in your mother's womb, and should not be taken lightly. It must be handled with extreme patience and support.

 

 When a state of high alert continues in your body for an extended period of time, it begins to affect other sections of your body physiologically, because the nervous system connects to every single organ of your body via neurons or nerve cells. It has also been observed that people who have been exposed to trauma for a prolonged amount of time startle easily, become physically and emotionally burned out in their relationships, seek unhealthy external validation, become chronic people pleasers, do not understand the concept of self-love, and tend to overachieve because they learned at a young age that in order to be loved by someone, you must hustle and overachieve. Children even receive emotional abuse from their parents, relatives, and other family members which passes on to them as generational trauma. This extremely worrisome state of the body eventually creates anxiety, depression, and other mental problems, making it impossible for the person to function in a healthy manner. Such people either overindulge in drink, narcotics, and other dangerous substances. They also develop unhealthy methods of coping such as binge-eating and binge-watching online shows. Difficulty detaching oneself from their job titles and public image. 

In a trauma-driven lifestyle, facing oneself, your emotions, and your behavioral patterns is the only path to understanding of oneself. The greatest way to move forward and improve your mental state is to seek assistance from a mental health professional. Therapists are experts who listen to your problems without passing judgment and provide you with the guidance you need. Keep in mind that their goal is to support you in living a healthy lifestyle on a daily basis, not to fix you. They impart some crucial skills that enable you to deal more calmly and effectively with your triggers and trauma reactions.

We are lucky to live in a time when mental health awareness is high and to have access to qualified medical professionals and therapists who can help us.

Businesses like Mindtribe, Rocket Health, Amaha Healthcare, and many more offer affordable therapy sessions at your convenience and will undoubtedly support those who choose to pursue therapy.

I will discuss the benefits of therapy as well as the challenges one might encounter in my upcoming article.

References - 

1. https://www.ctctbay.org/community/community-partner-table-resources/trauma-informed/neurobiology-trauma#:~:text=The%20body's%20reaction%20to%20traumatic,glands%20to%20release%20stress%20hormones. 

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697116/

3. https://www.nicabm.com/trauma-how-limbic-system-therapy-can-help-resolve-trauma/

If you have any queries or wish to connect to a therapist or a counselor you can write to us at envisagecontent94@gmail.com and we will try our best to help you find access to mental health professionals. 


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