Trauma

The term trauma may be used in two different contexts. In the physical context, it means a physical injury inflicted on a person by some external agent. In a psychological context, the term trauma means an emotional response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event.

1. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

2. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.

3. An event that causes great distress.

Psychological trauma is damage to a person's mind as a result of one or more events that cause overwhelming amounts of stress that exceed the person's ability to cope or integrate the emotions involved, eventually leading to serious, long-term negative consequences. Trauma is not the same as mental distress or suffering, both of which are universal human experiences.

Trauma therapy

Trauma therapy allows processing trauma-related memories, and allows growth towards more adaptive psychological functioning. It helps to develop positive coping instead of negative coping, and allows the individual to integrate upsetting-distressing material (thoughts, feelings and memories) and to resolve these internally. It also aids in the growth of personal skills, like resilience, ego regulation, empathy, etc...

(2:216) Battle has been decreed for you although it is crash for you. And perhaps a crushing thing is a good for you, and perhaps lovely thing is a bad for you. God knows while you do not know.

Trauma trigger

A trauma trigger is a psychological stimulus that prompts involuntary recall of a previous traumatic experience. The stimulus itself need not be frightening or traumatic and may be only indirectly or superficially reminiscent of an earlier traumatic incident, such as a scent or a piece of clothing. Triggers can be subtle and difficult to anticipate. A trauma trigger may also be called a trauma stimulus, a trauma stressor or a trauma reminder.

The process of connecting a traumatic experience to a trauma trigger is called traumatic coupling.

Flashback (psychology)

A flashback, or involuntary recurrent memory, is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual has a sudden, usually powerful, re-experiencing of a past experience or elements of a past experience. These experiences can be frightful, happy, sad, exciting, or any number of other emotions. The term is used particularly when the memory is recalled involuntarily, especially when it is so intense that the person "relives" the experience, and is unable to fully recognize it as memory of a past experience and not something that is happening in "real time".

(41:53) We will show them Our signs in the horizons, and within themselves, until it becomes clear to them that this is the truth. Is it not enough that your Lord is witness over all things?

(43:48) Every sign We showed them was greater than the one before it. And We seized them by the torment, perhaps they would return.

Collective trauma

Collective trauma does not merely reflect a historical fact or the recollection of a traumatic event that happened to a group of people. Collective trauma suggests that the tragedy is represented in the collective memory of the group, and like all forms of memory it comprises not only a reproduction of the events, but also an ongoing reconstruction of the trauma in an attempt to make sense of it. Collective memory of a trauma is different from individual memory because collective memory persists beyond the lives of the direct survivors of the events, and is remembered by group members that may be far removed from the traumatic events in time and space.

1. Trauma - as a loss (experience of loss): a person's awareness of the loss of himself as a "whole". A person's attempts to fit trauma into their daily routine.

2. Trauma - as a plot (symbolic matrix): erection of monuments, creation of rituals, all kinds of emphasis on trauma through demonstrative actions. This creates a framework that can influence an understanding audience.

3. Trauma - as the basis of society (consolidating event): with the understanding that trauma affects both witnesses and direct victims, a united society is created that unites them and at the same time removes them from those who have nothing to do with this trauma. (14:28-29)

Traumatic events witnessed by an entire society can stir up collective sentiment, often resulting in a shift in that society's culture and mass actions.

(25:18) They said, "Glory be to You! There was no (sense) for us to look and to take besides You any protectors. Indeed You gave them and their fathers to prosper until they forgot the Methodology, and they were a lost people."

(27:43) She was prevented by what she served besides God. She was from a denying people.

(31:21) If they are told: "Follow what God has sent down." They say, "No, we will follow what we found our fathers doing." And if it happens that the devil will call upon them to the torments of neurosis?

(58:19) The devil has overtaken them, and has caused them to forget the methodology of God. These are the party of the devil. Absolutely, the party of the devil are the losers.

Religious trauma syndrome

«Religious trauma syndrome» (RTS) is recognized in psychology and psychotherapy as a set of symptoms, ranging in severity, experienced by those who have participated in or left behind authoritarian, dogmatic, and controlling religious groups and belief systems. Symptoms include cognitive, affective, functional, and social/cultural issues as well as developmental delays.

(6:110) And We divert their intuition and eyesight, as they did not trust it the first time. And We leave them wandering in their transgression.