It is as if the factory has shut down because the experience is “too big” to process. Whilst in survival mode the brain cannot process what is happening in the same way. When we experience a traumatic event, or a set of distressing experiences, the situation(s) may be so overwhelming that the brain switches into a survival mode, in order to enable us do what we need to do to tolerate and/or survive the experience. Imagine that the brain is like a factory, which turns our day-to-day experiences into long-term memories that we can then use to guide our learning and development and be better prepared for situations in the future. To understand more about why trauma symptoms persist, it is helpful to think about how the brain creates memories and then consider what happens when we experience a traumatic event or series of highly distressing situations. What happens in the brain when we experience a traumatic situation? EMDR has been shown to be helpful for prenatal, post-natal and perinatal mental health. The good news is that there are some evidence-based therapies that can resolve trauma symptoms, one of which is Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. If you are experiencing flashbacks related to your birth or pregnancy, this suggests that the memories you are reliving have not been fully processed by your brain. It is this dysfunctional storage of the trauma memory that causes people with PTSD to have re-experiencing symptoms such as flashbacks and nightmares. I think of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a physiological problem because of the nature of the traumatic experience, the trauma memory has not been properly processed and so has been stored in a raw form in a different part of the person’s brain to their other long-term memories. I hope by reading this article, you will realise that this is absolutely not true. Some people with trauma symptoms think that they are weak, “going crazy” or to blame for their trauma symptoms. Trauma symptoms, such as flashbacks and nightmares, are a normal and understandable response to experiencing unusual and highly distressing events.
PTSD)ĮMDR: The Therapy That Can Help You Overcome your Flashbacks and Nightmares
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