Treat Your Trauma Now Before Your Symptoms Become Unbearable

As you progress throughout life and you have untreated or what we trauma therapists call “trapped trauma,” your mental health symptoms will continue to worsen. 

When people experience trauma, especially children, and they are not able to process it, it becomes trapped in the emotion center of the brain (the left and right amygdalae, right next to the hippocampus), and makes it malfunction (mood swings, inability to process emotion, lack of dopamine causes pleasure-seeking behaviors, impulsivity). 

Until you process the trauma through therapies such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) it will continue to stay trapped and worsen over time. This means depression will worsen, anxiety will worsen, or whatever you may suffer from. 

Doing trauma therapy, EMDR and ART specifically, releases the trauma and moves it from the emotion center of the brain to the cognitive center (Cerebrum) of the brain, and back and forth, and back and forth, and in laymen’s terms, purges it from the brain. It is forcing your brain to process the trauma. Making it so that the trauma does not have such an adverse effect on you emotionally anymore. You can sit there and talk about your experience as if you are telling a story without breaking down the way you may have done previously. Over time you will notice that anxiety and depression get better. The bad dreams lessen or go away altogether. You are able to live a normal, happy, healthy, life. 

We can help you here at Harper Therapy process trauma and get on the path to healing.

Give us a call at 813-434-3639 today.