Healing Your Traumatized Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Someone You Love Dies a Sudden, Violent Death
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Healing Your Traumatized Heart - Alan D. Wolfelt
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UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE TRAUMATIZED.
You’ve been traumatized by a sudden and violent death. How is this different from your reaction to an anticipated or non-violent death? As you know, the death of someone loved always causes painful feelings. But in the case of sudden, violent death, your mind has an especially difficult time acknowledging and absorbing the circumstances of the death itself.
In this sense, the word trauma
refers to intense feelings of shock, fear, anxiety and helplessness surrounding the cause of death. Trauma is caused by events of such intensity or magnitude of horror that they would overwhelm any human being’s capacity to