Trauma Therapy in San Diego
When you’ve been traumatized, it settles deep inside you. Even if they have managed to push away the unhappy memories, traumatized individuals feel they have always been on their own and do the best they can to work things out for themselves.
Wondering whether you suffer from unresolved trauma despite experiencing peaceful moments or years and continue to feel like withdrawing socially? Our staff at La Jolla Recovery in San Diego wants to be there to support you on your journey of healing trauma through our innovative, caring, and life transferring mental health therapies. Whether requiring medication-assisted treatment optional or dual disorder attention to substance use, we are here to offer a unique plan to enrich your life and long-term healing.
Therapy for Trauma and Attending Mental Health in Treatment
Even if you have had therapy, the most severe effects of childhood trauma tend to remain because there is only so much you can do all by yourself. There is no template for working out unresolved childhood trauma, though. The symptoms might go underground for years. An emotional upheaval or an event that serves as too close a reminder of your earlier trauma can put you back into the original drama.
According to Freudian theories, we often feel compelled to repeat, even if we avoid such repetition. That’s why you might find yourself in relationships that remind you of those that traumatized you in the past. Until you’ve had help working out exactly how its roots are alive in the present, your childhood trauma can stay with you for the rest of your life.
Attending trauma
There are many kinds of childhood trauma that you might not identify as trauma at all, such as the death of a sibling, a severe childhood infection, a learning disability that left you doubting yourself, absent or emotionally detached parents, your parent’s childhood trauma, or a combination of many calamities.
Whatever the cause, your needs for nurturing were underestimated or overtly ignored, sometimes even being exploited to cater to your parent’s needs. People experienced neglect if their emotional and physical needs as a child were not prioritized in their homes.
Being abandoned early in your life is a trauma, regardless of how nurtured you were by other relatives or your remaining parent; such loss can be almost unsurmountable. You may still need to mourn these losses. Most unresolved childhood trauma affects self-esteem and creates anxiety. If you were seriously ill and were isolated at home or hospitalized, that meant separation from parents and maybe traumatizing medical procedures. Unresolved childhood trauma can leave you with anxiety that persists. If you had dyslexia, ADHD, or any other learning problem, you likely felt different or compared yourself unfavorably to the rest of your class. These labels would negatively impact your self-image, even if you struggled against challenges you couldn’t control. Or maybe you gave in and gave up. An unreachable parent is traumatic. Perhaps you’re wary of your needs and uncertain of being loved. Perhaps you learned to stay distant, not expecting much.