Trauma
Tom Richardson
What is Trauma? Trauma could be looked at as a deeply disturbing event that happened in someone’s life, which leads to emotional and physical long-term damage. Today Trauma is one of the main reasons for many people’s mental health and can be very undervalued by how much of one event can make on someone’s life.
When seeing homeless people in our society, many people will do one or two things? They might not acknowledge them, they might see them and walk past, or maybe just an occasionally stop and interact with the homeless. But I don’t believe many people ask themselves how they got themselves in that position? Were they always in that position was itself infliction on their part? Or was it a traumatic event put of their hands that led them there?
Homelessness is caused by the interaction of structural problems at the macro level such as the lack of affordable housing or long-term unemployment and individual causes such as debt, family breakdown, or poor health. Many people experience this daily; however, it might just never get to the point where they become homeless. Therefore, sometimes there’s not much different than the extent of a problem that causes someone to be homeless or not.
According to https://nhchc.org/, there are many components to trauma, starting with:
Trauma works to protect us and teaches us how to respond to danger. But if the traumatic situation never stops, those responses can change the way the brain works, causing heightened sensitivity and increased alarms.
Here’s some information on homelessness and which places are most affected by it.
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report/oregon/
Tom Richardson
What is Trauma? Trauma could be looked at as a deeply disturbing event that happened in someone’s life, which leads to emotional and physical long-term damage. Today Trauma is one of the main reasons for many people’s mental health and can be very undervalued by how much of one event can make on someone’s life.
When seeing homeless people in our society, many people will do one or two things? They might not acknowledge them, they might see them and walk past, or maybe just an occasionally stop and interact with the homeless. But I don’t believe many people ask themselves how they got themselves in that position? Were they always in that position was itself infliction on their part? Or was it a traumatic event put of their hands that led them there?
Homelessness is caused by the interaction of structural problems at the macro level such as the lack of affordable housing or long-term unemployment and individual causes such as debt, family breakdown, or poor health. Many people experience this daily; however, it might just never get to the point where they become homeless. Therefore, sometimes there’s not much different than the extent of a problem that causes someone to be homeless or not.
According to https://nhchc.org/, there are many components to trauma, starting with:
- - Feelings of lack of control, terror, and helplessness
- - Threat to one’s physical or mental health through violence
- - The brain responding to flight or flight mode
Trauma works to protect us and teaches us how to respond to danger. But if the traumatic situation never stops, those responses can change the way the brain works, causing heightened sensitivity and increased alarms.
Here’s some information on homelessness and which places are most affected by it.
https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-report/oregon/
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