5 Physical Signs of Past Trauma That Most People Miss
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Date: 2023-08-20
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Carly
If you have the symptoms, please see a medical provider before assuming that they are due to psychological reasons like trauma.
For a number of years I was repeatedly told that my joint pain, my gastrointestinal symptoms, and my fatigue were all due to anxiety and some unresolved past trauma that I didnt know about. As time went by, I developed severe persistent daily headaches.
My symptoms got worse and worse until I was unable to work and my joints were repeatedly dislocated. It turns out I have a genetic disorder that affects my connective tissue which was causing my joint pain and muscle pain from my muscles trying to prevent my joints from dislocating. My G. I. symptoms include swallowing problems and abdominal pain. It wasnt until I had multiple occasions of blood in my stool that I was finally diagnosed with IBD (not anxiety causing IBS. My fatigue is significantly better when my IBD in remission. I have also found that my fatigue is in part because my muscles are working twice as hard to hold my joints together. Im just standing still is hard work for my body and that can be exhausting. It also turns out that my neck muscles can over react to the instability in my joints and overpower my cervical vertebrae and causing severe cervicogenic headaches.
Before assuming that physical symptoms are due to trauma, please get assessed by a medical provider. Years of therapy and practising mindfulness did nothing to help and was actually a barrier to getting the medical treatment I needed (medication for IBD, physiotherapy and surgery. Once I finally got the correct diagnoses and was able to eventually access appropriate treatment, my headaches are gone, my joint pain is significantly reduced, and I can go for months without any G. I. symptoms. Ironically now I have trauma from years of medical gaslightingIm hypervigilant during medical appointments and I have developed a fight or flight response.
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If you have the symptoms, please see a medical provider before assuming that they are due to psychological reasons like trauma.
For a number of years I was repeatedly told that my joint pain, my gastrointestinal symptoms, and my fatigue were all due to anxiety and some unresolved past trauma that I didnt know about. As time went by, I developed severe persistent daily headaches.
My symptoms got worse and worse until I was unable to work and my joints were repeatedly dislocated. It turns out I have a genetic disorder that affects my connective tissue which was causing my joint pain and muscle pain from my muscles trying to prevent my joints from dislocating. My G. I. symptoms include swallowing problems and abdominal pain. It wasnt until I had multiple occasions of blood in my stool that I was finally diagnosed with IBD (not anxiety causing IBS. My fatigue is significantly better when my IBD in remission. I have also found that my fatigue is in part because my muscles are working twice as hard to hold my joints together. Im just standing still is hard work for my body and that can be exhausting. It also turns out that my neck muscles can over react to the instability in my joints and overpower my cervical vertebrae and causing severe cervicogenic headaches.
Before assuming that physical symptoms are due to trauma, please get assessed by a medical provider. Years of therapy and practising mindfulness did nothing to help and was actually a barrier to getting the medical treatment I needed (medication for IBD, physiotherapy and surgery. Once I finally got the correct diagnoses and was able to eventually access appropriate treatment, my headaches are gone, my joint pain is significantly reduced, and I can go for months without any G. I. symptoms. Ironically now I have trauma from years of medical gaslightingIm hypervigilant during medical appointments and I have developed a fight or flight response.
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Killua_Zoldyck
I wonder if losing someone really special to you counts as a truama. My. Bff moved when we were 12 I'm 17 now. It sucks when the only person who understands yourself is you. I'm always talking about her and everyone treats her as just a friend who doesn't matter. She's the only person I'd really trust my life with. Even though I made a few friends at school it still doesn't fill the gap i still feel lonely i still think about her. And when i start thinking about her that's all I think about for the entire day. Sometimes i have mental breakdowns but they're very rare. You know the best part about a mental breakdown is i feel so much better afterwards almost like feeling so sick to my stomach i start throwing up then afterwards i feel so much better. Then i feel like shit the next day. I guess that's why I avoid it so much though and it makes me feel weak. I have strange dreams. I dream about her often. I get shivers and jerk up really fast but i didn't see anything scary it was just her. I wonder if it means i miss her a lot It's like I'm living with a ghost. I get mini flashes and flashbacks especially because we often went on walks like EVERYWHERE far FAR away from THEM (my mentally, physically, and emotionally abusive parents. Everytime my parents take me places i can see our tracks and remember exactly where we walked it triggers the flashbacks again like I'm reliving the memory. Sometimes at school when I'm talking to my group i look out the window and see her standing there my friends don't see it but i can see it so they think I'm going crazy. I'm aware they're talking to me but i see her and think it's real like an illusion but it's not
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I wonder if losing someone really special to you counts as a truama. My. Bff moved when we were 12 I'm 17 now. It sucks when the only person who understands yourself is you. I'm always talking about her and everyone treats her as just a friend who doesn't matter. She's the only person I'd really trust my life with. Even though I made a few friends at school it still doesn't fill the gap i still feel lonely i still think about her. And when i start thinking about her that's all I think about for the entire day. Sometimes i have mental breakdowns but they're very rare. You know the best part about a mental breakdown is i feel so much better afterwards almost like feeling so sick to my stomach i start throwing up then afterwards i feel so much better. Then i feel like shit the next day. I guess that's why I avoid it so much though and it makes me feel weak. I have strange dreams. I dream about her often. I get shivers and jerk up really fast but i didn't see anything scary it was just her. I wonder if it means i miss her a lot It's like I'm living with a ghost. I get mini flashes and flashbacks especially because we often went on walks like EVERYWHERE far FAR away from THEM (my mentally, physically, and emotionally abusive parents. Everytime my parents take me places i can see our tracks and remember exactly where we walked it triggers the flashbacks again like I'm reliving the memory. Sometimes at school when I'm talking to my group i look out the window and see her standing there my friends don't see it but i can see it so they think I'm going crazy. I'm aware they're talking to me but i see her and think it's real like an illusion but it's not
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cyrus
Honestly it's hard to be honest with my abilities and trama that I had to endure since I was young and defensive and it's hard to picture that every time I get yell at or the threatene by comments that my mom make about my short tops and even though people say am pretty or not good enough to speak my mind and tell my lola and my mom to back off of my own life I feel uncomfortable being around at home and even though my mom is nice and sweet I feel she changed and her mood swings and thoughts aren't real and she has typed 1 diabetes and isn't fine with me living with it and it's hard for me to open up to my moms because she doesn't listen and every time my friends say start taking care of mom it's almost a slap to the face of trust I once had of my friends and my self and it's hard not having a outlet or someone to actually talk except for my dad a papa
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Honestly it's hard to be honest with my abilities and trama that I had to endure since I was young and defensive and it's hard to picture that every time I get yell at or the threatene by comments that my mom make about my short tops and even though people say am pretty or not good enough to speak my mind and tell my lola and my mom to back off of my own life I feel uncomfortable being around at home and even though my mom is nice and sweet I feel she changed and her mood swings and thoughts aren't real and she has typed 1 diabetes and isn't fine with me living with it and it's hard for me to open up to my moms because she doesn't listen and every time my friends say start taking care of mom it's almost a slap to the face of trust I once had of my friends and my self and it's hard not having a outlet or someone to actually talk except for my dad a papa
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loretta
I have a lot of unresolved trauma plus have to stay with my abusive parents and while watching this, one second, I was laughing about something amusing and the next I was crying cause I'm just so, so tired of their bs and how they ruined and continue to ruin my mental health and yet blame me for my responses. I'm not new to such psych stuff but this one really made me think cause I've had chronic headaches for my entire life with no apparent diagnosis and this just makes so much sense now. So, thank you for you and your lovely animations and comforting voiceovers. Do y'all have a podcast?
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I have a lot of unresolved trauma plus have to stay with my abusive parents and while watching this, one second, I was laughing about something amusing and the next I was crying cause I'm just so, so tired of their bs and how they ruined and continue to ruin my mental health and yet blame me for my responses. I'm not new to such psych stuff but this one really made me think cause I've had chronic headaches for my entire life with no apparent diagnosis and this just makes so much sense now. So, thank you for you and your lovely animations and comforting voiceovers. Do y'all have a podcast?
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Benny
Thank to your tips and other people's help I feel like I'm getting better. I won't say that it will be better and better because I'll always have really bad periods (usually in those periods I would try to let me die in some ways, but with time I'm going to tolerate and uderstand more my phisical and psychological pain linked to this. I'm aware that the past cannot be changed, but I'm more confident now and I can say that I don't have to hate myself for what I've done or for what someone did to me. The best approach for now is to chill and be patient.
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Thank to your tips and other people's help I feel like I'm getting better. I won't say that it will be better and better because I'll always have really bad periods (usually in those periods I would try to let me die in some ways, but with time I'm going to tolerate and uderstand more my phisical and psychological pain linked to this. I'm aware that the past cannot be changed, but I'm more confident now and I can say that I don't have to hate myself for what I've done or for what someone did to me. The best approach for now is to chill and be patient.
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deku
I HAVE A QUESTION sumn happened when i was about 4 or 5 and i think that ever since, every few days i get a heartache, its like a rumbling throughout my ribcage and i have to hold my breath and stay still for however long this rumbling stops, sometimes 10 secs or just 2 secs but it really hurtzz and its like a thunder or sumn IS this considered a chronic pain? i mean. i'd love to visit a pro and know and TALK about the shiz that happened but man. maybe i'll go when im older
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I HAVE A QUESTION sumn happened when i was about 4 or 5 and i think that ever since, every few days i get a heartache, its like a rumbling throughout my ribcage and i have to hold my breath and stay still for however long this rumbling stops, sometimes 10 secs or just 2 secs but it really hurtzz and its like a thunder or sumn IS this considered a chronic pain? i mean. i'd love to visit a pro and know and TALK about the shiz that happened but man. maybe i'll go when im older
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Kim
I agree with many of your comments on mental /physical trauma and treatment knowledgeable in modern psychology.
The understated problem for many, is the unaffordable cost of finding a therapist able to deal with others trauma humanely.
Professionals are rare, help is difficult to find, Drs, we go to have no idea of managing this correctly in my experience.
The system is designed for affordability and profit not for the publics well-being.
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I agree with many of your comments on mental /physical trauma and treatment knowledgeable in modern psychology.
The understated problem for many, is the unaffordable cost of finding a therapist able to deal with others trauma humanely.
Professionals are rare, help is difficult to find, Drs, we go to have no idea of managing this correctly in my experience.
The system is designed for affordability and profit not for the publics well-being.
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alluka-
my dad tried tu burn our whole house but my mom stopped him and they fight all night i was in the room covering my brothers ears and crying now that im 13 im really mad at my dad because he is no good example for my little brother now that my little brother is getting influenced by my dad my brother always cuss and would physically harm me and my mom just like my dad im really dissapointed at my self and at my dad
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my dad tried tu burn our whole house but my mom stopped him and they fight all night i was in the room covering my brothers ears and crying now that im 13 im really mad at my dad because he is no good example for my little brother now that my little brother is getting influenced by my dad my brother always cuss and would physically harm me and my mom just like my dad im really dissapointed at my self and at my dad
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Thomas
The only one of the five physical signs I'm sure are caused by trauma, is gastrointestinal. I experienced gas much of the time when around my ex-wife during our final two or three years together. I was sure of the source then, and lately, the past few months, it has returned, and I'm fairly sure of the source now as well. I'm working to change that environment rather than to find a way to cope with it.
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The only one of the five physical signs I'm sure are caused by trauma, is gastrointestinal. I experienced gas much of the time when around my ex-wife during our final two or three years together. I was sure of the source then, and lately, the past few months, it has returned, and I'm fairly sure of the source now as well. I'm working to change that environment rather than to find a way to cope with it.
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Kaniks
People assume Id be someone who would fight because Im physically very strong and a genuinely protective person, but unless its someone whos with me thats being threatened I go flight. I tend to dodge ppl a lot when they reach out but in actual situations its bad because my fear takes full control and I freeze. I covet so scared that I cant move.
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People assume Id be someone who would fight because Im physically very strong and a genuinely protective person, but unless its someone whos with me thats being threatened I go flight. I tend to dodge ppl a lot when they reach out but in actual situations its bad because my fear takes full control and I freeze. I covet so scared that I cant move.
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Black
Thats why Im in therapy. Im finally addressing my past trauma. There is some past trauma I had that I didnt know was still there until I went to therapy. Before I started going to therapy, I not only was suffering mentally but I also felt physical pain. I had chest pain to the point I ended up in the hospital multiple times.
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Thats why Im in therapy. Im finally addressing my past trauma. There is some past trauma I had that I didnt know was still there until I went to therapy. Before I started going to therapy, I not only was suffering mentally but I also felt physical pain. I had chest pain to the point I ended up in the hospital multiple times.
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TheSix
All these, Ive experienced at some point in my life. I had a traumatic childhood and have been in recovery since I was 30. I had to get rigorously honest about my response to things Im powerless over. With meditation and prayers and no sugar, Ive been able to have an amazingly beautiful life. one day at a time!
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All these, Ive experienced at some point in my life. I had a traumatic childhood and have been in recovery since I was 30. I had to get rigorously honest about my response to things Im powerless over. With meditation and prayers and no sugar, Ive been able to have an amazingly beautiful life. one day at a time!
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Taylor
If 70 percent of the population on Earth has trauma then that means 70% has baggage which means the advice go for a less damaged person is completely false.
You might experience someone with less damage or someone who might be compatible with you but everyone is going to have baggage and you can't escape it
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If 70 percent of the population on Earth has trauma then that means 70% has baggage which means the advice go for a less damaged person is completely false.
You might experience someone with less damage or someone who might be compatible with you but everyone is going to have baggage and you can't escape it
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Laynie
Gives some truth to the saying it's all in your head. It makes you wonder how many medical issues people have that had a psychological origin. E. g. the PTSD from an emotionally traumatizing event that keeps the fight-or-flight going, creating so much cortisol that it wrecks the body physically.
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Gives some truth to the saying it's all in your head. It makes you wonder how many medical issues people have that had a psychological origin. E. g. the PTSD from an emotionally traumatizing event that keeps the fight-or-flight going, creating so much cortisol that it wrecks the body physically.
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Lou
I suffer with depression and anxiety terribly along with chronic fatigue. I am extremely claustrophobic to the point I cant sit in a room with a door shut and I cant sit in the back of cars if the rear doors dont open. I have constant nightmares of being suffocated which terrify me.
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I suffer with depression and anxiety terribly along with chronic fatigue. I am extremely claustrophobic to the point I cant sit in a room with a door shut and I cant sit in the back of cars if the rear doors dont open. I have constant nightmares of being suffocated which terrify me.
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Marian
You cannot keep traumatic fear internalized forever. it will surface eventually in one way or another. it needs to be dealt with and come to terms with it or it will destroy you. talk to someone you trust. even if they just listen and don't answer. get it out
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You cannot keep traumatic fear internalized forever. it will surface eventually in one way or another. it needs to be dealt with and come to terms with it or it will destroy you. talk to someone you trust. even if they just listen and don't answer. get it out
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Acaxia
I wanted to watch this because of past abuse for many years physically and mentally and I feel bad when my friend pretends to hit me and I block my face and whimper and she looks at me weird and walks away but I dont want to tell her why
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I wanted to watch this because of past abuse for many years physically and mentally and I feel bad when my friend pretends to hit me and I block my face and whimper and she looks at me weird and walks away but I dont want to tell her why
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_Froskkk_
GI distress
Me, who was diagnosed with PTSD at age 7 and a half (and I''m pretty sure I had it since at least age 5) with a fully disfunctional colon and severe digestive problems that doctors can't seem to find a diagnosis for:
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GI distress
Me, who was diagnosed with PTSD at age 7 and a half (and I''m pretty sure I had it since at least age 5) with a fully disfunctional colon and severe digestive problems that doctors can't seem to find a diagnosis for:
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teto85
At one time I suffered 4 out of those 5 at the same time. After therapy I have been able to work out of all of those. It's not all perfect, but I know what's going on and am able to put it behind me and move on.
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At one time I suffered 4 out of those 5 at the same time. After therapy I have been able to work out of all of those. It's not all perfect, but I know what's going on and am able to put it behind me and move on.
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Pearl
My friend came up to tap me on the shoulder the other day, amd i shocked both of us when I flinched quite aggressively, and we were both so confused as to why i flinched
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My friend came up to tap me on the shoulder the other day, amd i shocked both of us when I flinched quite aggressively, and we were both so confused as to why i flinched
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Miles
I meditate to music. I like to dream about the things I'll never do in life like being a Nascar driver, FBI profiler or lawyer. It works for me.
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I meditate to music. I like to dream about the things I'll never do in life like being a Nascar driver, FBI profiler or lawyer. It works for me.
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Novasion
when i was a kid my dad would physically and verbally abuse me mostly after he came from the bar drunk and angry, so this weirdly helped
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when i was a kid my dad would physically and verbally abuse me mostly after he came from the bar drunk and angry, so this weirdly helped
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Ale
Thank you so much for this video. It hepls me to understand what I feel so much afraid coping situations that are new and defiant for me.
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Thank you so much for this video. It hepls me to understand what I feel so much afraid coping situations that are new and defiant for me.
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Heather
I have CPTSD but I don't recall my doctor or any of my therapists relating these symptoms to my condition. I've had 4/5 of them.
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I have CPTSD but I don't recall my doctor or any of my therapists relating these symptoms to my condition. I've had 4/5 of them.
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Dan
help is available, huh? Available two days week, during 9-4 office hours, at a cost of $100+/hr, IF they're accepting new patients.
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help is available, huh? Available two days week, during 9-4 office hours, at a cost of $100+/hr, IF they're accepting new patients.
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