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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.
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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:
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Ever hear that old Tina Turner song “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” and think about some previous relationship? There’s a similar phrase that can be set to the same music that I used as the title to this week’s post. As far as relationships are concerned non-exploitation has everything to do with relationships that have anything to do with sexual health. If you’ve ever struggled with an abusive relationship you were in, you’ve also struggled with the sexual health principle of non-exploitation.
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Are you someone who seems to find something to be anxious about, especially when others seem to be full of fear? If that’s the case, you probably need to have some sure-fire strategies or coping skills to help deal with it.
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Are you someone who gets angry very easily...perhaps too easily? Do you fly off the handle at things that don’t seem to be that important. If so, you could just be a hothead, or you could be struggling with grief and loss. The movie 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was a really good example of how people experience anger in reaction to grief and loss...and nothing else.
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Have you ever tried having ‘casual sex’ and wound up feeling bad about yourself or the experience later on? Well, that may have been an experience of not having identified shared values with a partner before engaging in the act of having sex. Not having shared values can make the difference between being in a state of sexual health and not being in that state.
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Ever wonder what you can do to get out of a blue mood? Or to help cope with major depression? Well, there are some tried and true ways to help overcome depression without medications.
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Are you somebody who has to be on your cell phone or in front of another screen 24/7? Do you feel like you can’t be separated from looking at media more than a small fraction of the time? If so, you not only have FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), but you are also probably helping to keep your anxiety going…and a whole lot more.
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Have you ever felt like you had a problem with controlling your sexual behavior at one moment, then later changed your mind? This has been the experience with many individuals, but it doesn’t mean there’s one for sure answer to the question of whether you have a problem or not.
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Are you someone who has a challenging time during the holidays? Does someone you love or care about have a hard time at this time of year? If so, then be sure to read on and know that even though it can be a challenge, the holiday blues are nothing that needs to rule this otherwise festive season.
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Do you ever wonder why you start feeling so sad and depressed at the same time every year? Well, it could be because of the ‘dis-anniversary.’
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Are you someone who can walk into a scary situation, maybe into a dark place, and think you see things in the dark? Do you ever recall frightening situations with amazing clarity and continue to be haunted by those memories. Do you talk about fearful situations that have happened in the past with friends or family members and they tell you how they just don’t remember things happening that way? If this is the case, you may be hallucinating as part of PTSD symptoms.
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Are you someone who has experienced an affair in your marriage? Do you wonder how long it will take to trudge the long road back from this or a similar breach in trust...if it’s even possible? If you are one of the partners involved in such an experience know that it is possible to come back from this.
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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.
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Have you ever found yourself obsessing about something you know is trivial, but find it hard to break out of that thought pattern? Have you just had the same kinds of thoughts keep streaming into your mind, no matter what you do? If this has happened to you, you may be falling victim to what I’ll call the ‘thought gremlins.’
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Have you ever found yourself perseverating about something that happened in the past and been unable to get your mind off it? Have you ever found yourself reacting to new situations as if they were something from your childhood or a recurring horrific event you consciously know has passed? Does this happen despite what you tell yourself before or during these events? If this is the case with you, your thinking may be being driven by trauma.
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Do you have people in your life who tell you that they think you are depressed? Do you hear what they’re saying and think ‘I don’t know what they’re talking about?’ or wonder how that can be the case. Maybe you agree with them, but don’t want to admit it. If this sounds like something you’ve experienced, you may be depressed and not realize it.
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Are you someone who suffers from engaging in what is commonly called sex addiction? Do you spend hours a day engaged in sexual activity you have no idea how to stop (although you feel like you’ve tried everything)? Do you feel helpless or powerless to do what you know is in your best interest and function like ‘normal’ people? If so, you may have wondered what it might be like to be magically cured of this ‘addiction,’ or what is also known as out of control sexual behavior.
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One of the biggest issues in the world today is depression. Recently the World Health Organization came out with a finding that depression is the single biggest health issue in the world...the world! It is the most prominent contributor to disability and is a “major contributor to the overall global burden of disease.”
Read moreThis is an interview with Mike Kampschaefer, PsyD, who is a noted therapist and psychoanalyst in the Oklahoma City area. He is an expert on childhood issues and their impact in later life, as well as being my brother.
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