Have you ever suffered from the memory of an awful event and just wished it would disappear?  Have you felt the effects for weeks, months, and years afterwards and thought how great it would be if you didn’t have to deal with it anymore?  Well, now there’s a new way to actually make this happen.

Have you recently experienced a traumatic event and wondered ‘What the heck am I supposed to do about this?’  You’ve probably been so shocked or stunned that you have trouble even thinking at all. A recent experience of mine has prompted me to come up with some steps anybody can hopefully take to minimize the emotional fallout of the event and help you to regain functional status.

Are you someone who suffered trauma in your early years and wound up developing an addiction afterwards?  If this is what’s happened to you, you’ve found one way of coping with your problems; but have wound up with another problem of equal or greater size in doing so.  It’s alot like dealing with a two-headed monster. If one of them doesn’t get you, the other will.

Trauma is something that happens to people that comes to totally dominate people’s lives because of events that are so jarring that they tend to create a railroad effect for other negative things that happen in someone’s life. There are 4 things you can do if you’ve been affected by these events to lessen or neutralize the effects of trauma:

With all the hurricanes and earthquakes that have been happening in parts of North America in the last few months, people are suffering due to being displaced and losing homes, property, loved ones, and other unpleasant consequences from these natural disasters.  Getting on with life can be very difficult and arduous, to say the least.  What often gets overlooked in these situations is the emotional suffering that can make things even harder for someone who has been victimized by these horrific events.