Psychic trauma can cause mental distress or disorder later in life, with events such as public humiliation, physical abuse, and abandonment being common causes. Phobias, panic attacks, depression, and hallucinations can manifest as a result. The cause of psychic trauma varies, and infants are particularly vulnerable. Diagnosing psychic trauma is difficult, and care must be taken when working with emotional and mental injuries. Counseling can provide some relief, but there is no known cure.
Mental trauma is an emotional injury that manifests itself later in life as mental distress or disorder. Many different types of events can cause such trauma, including public humiliation, physical abuse, and abandonment. The psychic trauma theory holds that humans sometimes find themselves unable to fully overcome certain emotionally damaging experiences. The inability to resolve this mental anguish leads to problems later in life, such as increased stress, nervous habits, or interpersonal difficulties.
One of the clearest ways that psychic trauma manifests itself later in life is through phobias, where memories of the original experience are shunned and vehemently feared. Alternatively, a person who suffers psychic impairment may subsequently experience panic attacks, depression or even disturbed hallucinations.
The cause of psychic trauma varies and can include less commonly recognized emotional injuries, such as confrontation with a feared object, loss, or even birth. Often, the original traumatic event is not remembered and must be discovered through the analysis of current symptoms. There is no known cure for psychic trauma, although counseling through a therapist can provide some relief.
Events that greatly disturb the way a person sees their world are likely to be traumatic. War experiences are often a source of psychic trauma for this reason. Any experience that demonstrates the extremes of humankind’s cruelty, whether inflicted on a child, a population, or an animal, is more likely to cause trauma in those who live or directly witness the event. Also, if the participant lacks the power to stop the traumatic event, this feeling of helplessness can increase the harm.
Infants, in particular, are often considered to be subject to psychic trauma. While children may not be able to recall experiences that happened to them in their early years, surgeries that occur before the age of three have been shown to cause psychic damage. Similarly, birth is a very traumatic experience and some people require treatment to overcome this initial injury.
Diagnosing psychic trauma is difficult because the patient is usually not equipped to identify the root of the problem. Unlike physical injuries, where the source of the problem can be seen, analyzed and operated on, injuries of an emotional nature must largely be assumed to exist and mentally worked around them. Sometimes, in trying to diagnose the source of mental anguish, psychologists end up prompting patients with the original source of their problems, thus creating a false memory of the trauma. Working with emotional and mental injuries is highly speculative and therefore dangerous, and great care must be taken to engage only with trusted physicians.
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