Trauma is an event that causes distress to the system. Sometimes this distress can be of the nature that results in phobia.
There are people who are thought phobic. They fear thoughts they believe can bring them close to the traumatic event.
The process is as follows:
1. the person desires,
2. this desire causes fear,
3. the fear is overwhelming( more than the person can deal with),
4. little be little the persons attempt at repressing this fear leads to pain and suffering.
In short, people scare themselves. In addition, they live lives tortured by pain and suffering.
The scary thoughts want to get out, but the fear of them getting out is too much for the person.
Better stated, the fear of what can happen if the person’s desire is found out is too much.
Now, what thoughts can scare us so much? Most of the time is violating a moral norm. This is a norm that is common to the person’s society, family, and or friends and is in betted deep in the person’s psyche.
Let me see if I can give a real world example. A person has grown up in a family where the family takes care of all the person’s needs and sets the person’s direction in life.
The parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents provide clothe, home, and the career the person will pursue.
For the most part, the person goes along because this lifestyle is all he knows.
Then one day the person wants to do something for himself. However, doing this thing makes the person confront the thought of how disappointed his family would be if he did something they where not a part of making.
This results in fear then panic. Thoughts of his family’s disappointment with him continue to build.
Every thought is worse than the last and leads to the pain and suffering growing.
Eventually the person is living a frightened and tortured life. Moreover, the person gets to the point where even thinking about thinking leads to pain.
Therefore the person stops being able to resolve the problem.
The fix is medication for the severe pain and therapy to help the person develop healthier thoughts and learn to live independently.
This requires time. The person should know that there is no need for automatic solutions.
Some things in life need to be fix right here and now other things can be dealt with thinking things out slowly and as the person can deal with them.
First, the person has, through experience, see that nothing is going to happen. In other words, the person has to gain confidence and security from being free of stress.
In addition, the person should see that as much as he or she has been fearing punishment, nothing has actually happened.
Therefore, his or her fear is not based on reality.
Of course, no one suffering from the effects of trauma should be doing self-therapy.
You can, however, begin to be nice to yourself by reducing stress with happy, healthy, positive thoughts, and relaxation exercises.
In addition, get comfortable with the idea of therapy. Therapy can be bad, but it can also be good.
The majority of the work to treat the effects of trauma should be done by a professional.
No one should work under the assumption that life is hopeless.
This could be a scary thought and we have already seen what scary thoughts can do to a person.