"Hello! This is Cornwall ER. How may I help you?" The nurse answered the phone call. Like every Friday, I was volunteering in the INOVA Emergency room. It was a very busy day in the ER, where all the room including the triages were full. The rescue squads were coming with one patient after another, and the doctor, PA and nurses were very busy. I looked at the nurse’s face, and she seemed very concerned. That was because it was a trauma case, and the patient was going in a cardiac arrest. The nurses started preparing the trauma room and I assisted them in the process. That was my first time observing a trauma case after I started volunteering in the ER. I was very anxious. After about 10 minutes, the ambulance arrived. Four rescue squad rushed in with the patient. They were using a defibrillator, and the patient was oozing out blood. One member of the squad was covered in blood, and everyone’s face was extremely tensed. The doctor and the nurses rushed in and started assisting the paramedics. I was praying for the trauma patient as I was delivering a blanket to a patient …show more content…
In village, there was no access to proper healthcare where we had to walk for hours to go see a doctor. Pregnant women would often succumb to death while delivering at home. There was always fear for life due to civil war and political turmoil, where bomb would go off in public places and cities would be attacked. My father was a government official, so there was always an extra risk. We moved to city, and my family of four lived in a rented single-room apartment. My father came to the US for studies, and my family had to stay 4 years away from my dad. Then, I came to the States with my mother and brother. That was a very massive change. It was a very different country and a very different culture. It came with challenges of its own, and it took couple of years to deal with the
Sooner or later, we all through a traumatic event that makes life more difficult for us to handle. Trauma can be a sustained series of events (such as an abusive relationship) or a single event. Sadly, even a single traumatic event may compel someone to turn to drugs and alcohol. In fact, it can even cause to addiction to these substances, throwing a person 's life even further off track.
Trauma can impact someone’s life to where they can’t make connections with anyone. Even connecting with family it would be hard.Trauma changes the way they see the world and other people. In both Good Will Hunting and The Catcher in the Rye, Will and Holden go through traumatic events that change their lives. This makes them see everything negatively and impacts their ability to cope.
Military Sexual Trauma, also known as MST. What is it and why is it important? MST refers to psychological trauma resulting from a sexual assault or repeated, threatening harassment experienced during military service (pg. 3). Now, let us take a moment and think about the relevance of this subject? When we think of our women in combat, what do we see? We see strong and courteous females. But have we ever thought about what could be lurking underneath all that armor?
This paper is a summer of chapter 10 in Trauma: Contemporary Directions in Theory, Practice, and Research (Ringel & Brandell, 2012). This chapter review the cultural and historical trauma among Native Americans.
In “Historicizing historical trauma theory,” Krista Maxwell examines the treatment of Aboriginal people by the government over the past few decades up until the present-day through one issue I find particularly important, which is that of child welfare.
Narrative Therapy was developed to help people separate themselves from their problems. The idea is that this will help the person use the skills that they already possess to minimize the problems that exist in their everyday lives. The Narrative Therapy approach was developed by Social Workers Michael White (Australia) and David Epston (New Zealand) during the 1970s-1980s. “White proclaimed is work to be exclusively that of ‘rich story development’ “(Gallant).
Trauma is the fourth leading cause of death overall for all ages in the United States. Trauma is
Back home in Toronto, there have been multiple reports appearing in the news of firefighters, ambulance workers, and soldiers taking their own life due to their struggle of PTSD. Many of the suicides took place because those who took their life felt that they were not receiving the correct treatment for their disorder, or they were being bullied by their coworkers and therefore chose to not receive any form of treatment because of the possibility of the bullying becoming more severe. I feel called to become a counselor for these men and women suffering from PTSD, and assist in lowering the slowly growing number of suicides and to provide the treatment necessary for the individual.
Childhood Trauma is defined as “The experience of an event by a child that is emotionally painful or distressful, which often results in lasting mental and physical effects.” (The National Institute of Mental Health). Childhood trauma is an epidemic that seems to be running its way throughout the world. Childhood trauma is a worldwide problem that can affect anyone and everyone. People tend to just try and help the problems that occur due to the childhood trauma, but not the problem itself. Many of these issues will also follow the child into their adult years and will cause negative effects. This paper will discuss the negative outcomes for a child who suffers from childhood trauma, and the negative outcomes that can follow them into adulthood.
It was middle school. A time where my peers and I begin to question everything, develop, and mature. I was in the 8th grade when I found out a close friend of mine was self-harming. The news was difficult to process. I was frightened. I was still trying to figure out myself and the world, how was I to help my friend? At first, I decided maybe it was not my situation to handle and just keep quiet. It was not up to me to resolve her problem for her. Maybe she would stop. But, it soon flooded my mind with thoughts and questions, what if it she committed considerable damage to herself? I could not keep it in much longer and I decided I did not care if my friend felt mad at me for letting an adult know. She needed help. I decided to go to a teacher
Subject matter in trauma is difficult due to the intensity of emotions that surface. Observing acts of abuse were difficult. Particularly the scenes were children were being abused. Moreover, self-injury videos were difficult to watch. Observing a mother who abused her child and then watching the child cope through self-injury was emotional.
Underage trauma refers to trauma that was experienced by an individual under the age of 18 years old. The term “trauma” is defined as “an emotional response to a terrible event like an accident, rape, or natural disaster” and is experienced “immediately after the event (American Psychological Association, 2014, par 1). Although there are many types of trauma I will only be discussing the following: child maltreatment and neglect, bullying, rape/sexual assault, and teen dating violence since these types are considered victims since the trauma was outside their control and the trauma was perpetrated by someone the child or youth knew or was a stranger to him or her.
All my life ,I’ve always wanted to be someone in life who can actually make a difference to this world in a positive way. Ever since I was a little girl I pushed myself to always best I can be just . I lived in a town outside Los Angeles, California , it was called Van Nuys,California.The elementary school (Kittridge Elementary) I had went to was in a low income area, mainly spanish community had lived in the area I was living in at the time .I had a lot of friends (mainly mexicans) I focused a lot on being on time for school , staying on task in class, and finishing my homework. At such a young age I had felt such ambition and was doing very good for myself. At the age of 10 was when reality start to really hit me , even though I was very young I started to see things differently.
In life, many things are taken for granted on a customary basis. For example, we wake up in the morning and routinely expect to see and hear from certain people. Most people live daily life with the unsighted notion that every important individual in their lives at the moment, will exist there tomorrow. However, in actuality, such is not the case. I too fell victim to the routine familiarity of expectation, until the day reality taught me otherwise.
September 12, 2016 was the worst morning of my life. Actually, I can honestly say the worst experience. It is worse than when I cut my finger last year. It all started approximately two to three weeks ago. Let me explain, how the situation evolved. I still really can not imagine how it concluded. That day, I learned there are no shortcuts around some things; you just have to do it.