Nighttime Mosquitos

Psychological Trauma: Emotional Disorder

Psychological trauma can inflict deep mental pain that can remain with you for days, weeks, months and sometimes even years. People with psychological trauma may experience a change in emotions, such as irritability, anger, depression, anxiety and fear. Sometimes trauma comes out at night in the form of nighttime mosquitos; they’re called nightmares. Anyone still experience nightmares as an adult?

For me personally, I don’t have as many nightmares as I did as a child. Also, when I do have them, I no longer wake up screaming or frightened. I usually wake up in discomfort and try to fall back asleep. But people with psychological trauma may remain awake for the remainder of the night; their nightmares feel like they’re reliving the trauma.

Psychological trauma can result from many events and different types of scenarios:

Rape
Wars
Natural disasters
Kidnappings
Accidents
Injuries
Robberies
Theft
Even an adverse reaction from a medication or illicit drug

These traumatic experiences are stored in the unconscious mind which sprinkles tidbits of the trauma in the form of nightmares; these nighttime mosquitos love to sting! How do you deal with nightmares? Is there even a way to deal with them? What is your experience with psychological trauma? Have you ever been diagnosed with an emotional disorder? Please contribute as this is a platform for all of us to share our experiences and learn from.

Are you Ready? (This is Defeating Stigma Mindfully)