Post traumatic growth

Sometimes it looks like life is a slope below. I mean, something like that. We are born 'whole' and follow our ball. Hence there is a number of bad things - which, in a high intensity, are trauma. And let's be straightforward: no one goes through life without it. Hence two things can happen. The first is that we put it in our emotional baggage and live a little worse because of it. We generalize this learning to other contexts, and our universe is a little scarier, a little sadder. And the other is that we have that word of fashion, resilience, and we can handle this lock more, and we follow in our previous degree of functionality.

It's kind of dark to think like that, isn't it?

and fortunately this is not a complete image.

The areas of health, as we know, have a ironic tendency to actually be areas of the disease. So you study much more when it goes wrong. We know a lot about post traumatic stress disorder. And it confuses us, because when we know a lot about something and little something else, we have the bias to think that the thing we know a lot is great and the thing we know little is small.

Research has shown, however, that almost 90% of people who undergo a traumatic episode have something opposite to illness or even a tolerance - growth. A new perspective on life, a different appreciation of positive things, a reconnection with their values. Science has pointed out in the direction of greater optimism, greater appreciation of social support connections and even expansion of this way increased interpersonal orientation and pro-social behaviors.

This growth, of course, has no direct connection with the traumatic event. Suffering a trauma is not an enriching experience. The way the person confronts the new reality, this can be modifier.

Some factors appear to be related to post -traumatic growth capacity:

A capacity to accept your current situation - remembering that accepting does not mean to find good, beautiful, desirable. It's just not fighting with reality, even so that you can get better organized in the face of your demands!

Good quality social support, not necessarily resolving and certainly not judging, just welcoming the emotional situation brought by the person who experienced the difficult situation.

tied to this, the opportunity to have people to openly divide the experiences and meaning it has, as subjectivized, is also related to this growth.

It is often that we see spirituality as a protective factor of various harmful behaviors and in this case is no different. On the contrary, before scientific psychology is concerned with studying post -traumatic growth, wisdom and knowledge of various spiritual traditions already spoke about it through the times!

When we look at the support with support with important people and acceptance, don't you shout act inside our head? Don't scream psychological flexibility?

On the other hand, the characteristic called neuroticism-a tendency to respond with more strongly negative feelings and thoughts to stimuli that it considers threatening, loss and frustrations-seems to be inversely related to post-trauma growth.

incidentally, it is a very common feature of psychological inflexibility.

We are not talking about different things here, such as Act being a treatment for people who suffer trauma can have a type of growth. But that the dimensions of human experience we value are the same:

Be open to experience, present at the moment and committed to the values and people that are expensive.

This is how we suggest living, in good times… and in extremely difficult times that, right and unfortunately, will come.