#trauma effects

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Demeter,*sleepily*: Persephone? Are you ok, my rose?

Persephone,*hesitantly*: Had a nightmare about.... Him... Don't wanna sleep alone, mama.

Demeter: You wanna sleep with me?

Persephone,*nodding*: If you don't mind.

Demeter,*lifting up her blanket*: I don't.

[delicateprincepaper]

Whump trauma tips continued

The memory of the trauma is often affected because the frontal lobe shuts down. This is done so more energy will go the muscles which are considered more necessary for survival. The frontal lobe does lots of things but one of the more important things it does is processing memories. The brain can’t effectively process memories because of this. This is why people who have been through trauma often cannot remember the trauma very well or if they can they can only remember it in bits and pieces.

However there’s a chemical released during fight or flight mode that makes memories stronger. The combination of the frontal lobe being shut down and this chemical is that memories are incomplete but very strong.

The frontal lobe also controls decision making so when it shuts down people are unable to make good decisions. This is why people act like such idiots during crises.

Often when the frontal love shuts down people rely on habits and behaviors they know. This is why people might seem fine after trauma. They are just doing the behaviors that they know well such as smiling and saying hi.

People who have been through trauma often had mental disorders from it afterwards like ADHD and anxiety.

Our physical and mental well being are very connected. When we get hurt, a change in our physical well-being, we can become traumatized, a change in our mental well being. It works the other way around too. If someone is traumatized they might have physical symptoms like stomaches, headaches or sometimes even become blind or paralyzed.

Well that’s everything that I learned that might help with writing traumatized characters. If you want to know more about anything, just ask, giving my ADHD brain a reason to rant would make me very happy.

[traumatin]

it hurts because even now, a year later, i can’t get away from you.

every day i’m so scared that i’ll see you somewhere.

and it’s getting worse by the day.

where do you work now?

where will you go to school?

i need you to be away from me, i’m so afraid that you’ll be around the corner.

i can’t even think right now. i’m only scared.

sccared. scared

s c a r e d . . .

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