Writing about traumatic stress

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Sometimes there is claiming, that mental disorder doesn't seem from the behavior of the person. But this is actually wrong because the people who have the mental disorder sometimes see things the different way than so-called "normal person". And this is the thing, that we must remember when we are working with the people, who have the mental disorder. The mental problems are sometimes caused by the traumatic experience, what happened in the past. There are many people, who claim that they had good parents, and everything is all right. But that person afraid to walk outside after sunset.



That tells something have happened in some dark evening. The traumatic experiences are storing in the memory in the condition called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. That mental disorder is caused by traumatic experiences, like being in the war, but this mental disorder can be caused by normal violence or accident. The symptoms of this disorder are the amnesia and violent behavior. This disease causes problems in the normal life years after the traumatic case have been done. PTSD can be caused by the car accident or other traumatic situation, and that means, that it is not connected with deliberated violence.


Sometimes that fear is so dominant, that the person cannot leave from the home in the dark time. There are sometimes cases, where the person tries to convict, that the tough past in the drug gang or something like that is only imagination. But then we are facing the thing, that person fears with cars where sits two people. Above the text is a photograph of the black car. Most of the people including myself would not seem there anything special, except it is black and parked wrong. But some persons afraid those cars very much.


There is a phobia, what is called the "black car fear". That phobia was born in the situation, where some person does bad things to the person who has the phobia in the younghood. The traumatic experiences are born in the childhood and the fear of elevators is caused, that the person has been trapped in the elevator in the childhood. And the fear, what is targeted to cars causes, that the car has made something to that person. If somebody would almost get overdriven by car, that thing causes the flash-backs.


And sometimes the youngsters would not tell about those experiences to their parents, sometimes the reason could be simply, that they afraid the punishments for getting drunk if they are in the parties. But the fear is the mark that something has been done. If the person afraid some commonplace like houses or beaches, that would mean, there have been happened something in the younghood. Those bad experiences could have influenced the rest of that person's life.