DEALING WITH LIFE CRISIS AND Emotional TRAUMA (PART1)
DEALING WITH LIFE CRISIS AND Emotional TRAUMA (PART 1)
INTRODUCTION
Everyone is prone to having mild life crisis at different phases of their lives. It is an inevitable phenomenon,regardless of who we are, what we have and how good or pleasant we are (in our subsequent write-ups under the same topic, we will explore the reason for this). Life crisis usually starts as a mild crisis initially but can later become full blown !
A mild life crisis is any situation that has the potential to threaten our survival,survival of our businesses or marriages,family ,happiness,emotional stability etc while a full blown life crisis (characterised by emotional trauma of the affected person)results from poor management of a mild life crisis.
A full blown life crisis cannot be handled by the affected person but by a professional help.
It is worthy of note that life crisis occur whether we are prepared for it or not and Its causes include unresolved issues or traits inherited from our parents or other factors such as immaturity, wrong choices/decisions, incompetence, past childhood traumatic experiences, wrong company of friends, environmental factors such as unfavourable government policies, etc..
It is a MUST to experience mild life crisis whereas a full blown life crisis can be avoided! Interestingly,every life crisis we face has a solution. The solution does not involve running away from life crisis or praying against its occurrence. Its(mild life crisis) occurrence as well as it's timing is not within our control. The right approach is to face it "firing on all cylinders", using everything we have or calling for a professional help!
Of course,effective handling of a life crisis results from qualitative preparations and strategic planning made before the occurrence of life crisis and not during the crisis.
The important factor that differentiates a survivor of life crisis from a traumatised victim is proper management of the crisis, that is,a response instead of a reaction. The former (response) is a positive, well-planned, deliberate, intentional approach to dealing with the crisis as against the latter (reaction) which involves an irrational, emotional approach to dealing with a life crisis.Adequate and regular capacity building for life enables us to respond rather than reacting to life crisis!
In subsequent articles under this topic, we will talk about the following:
The purpose of life crisis
how to deal with life crisis
how to deal with a full blown life crisis that leads to traumatic experiences
aftermath of life crisis.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did, writing it.
Doctor Michaels
Self Actualization and Personal Therapy Program
Quantum Leap Consulting.
INTRODUCTION
Everyone is prone to having mild life crisis at different phases of their lives. It is an inevitable phenomenon,regardless of who we are, what we have and how good or pleasant we are (in our subsequent write-ups under the same topic, we will explore the reason for this). Life crisis usually starts as a mild crisis initially but can later become full blown !
A mild life crisis is any situation that has the potential to threaten our survival,survival of our businesses or marriages,family ,happiness,emotional stability etc while a full blown life crisis (characterised by emotional trauma of the affected person)results from poor management of a mild life crisis.
A full blown life crisis cannot be handled by the affected person but by a professional help.
It is worthy of note that life crisis occur whether we are prepared for it or not and Its causes include unresolved issues or traits inherited from our parents or other factors such as immaturity, wrong choices/decisions, incompetence, past childhood traumatic experiences, wrong company of friends, environmental factors such as unfavourable government policies, etc..
It is a MUST to experience mild life crisis whereas a full blown life crisis can be avoided! Interestingly,every life crisis we face has a solution. The solution does not involve running away from life crisis or praying against its occurrence. Its(mild life crisis) occurrence as well as it's timing is not within our control. The right approach is to face it "firing on all cylinders", using everything we have or calling for a professional help!
Of course,effective handling of a life crisis results from qualitative preparations and strategic planning made before the occurrence of life crisis and not during the crisis.
The important factor that differentiates a survivor of life crisis from a traumatised victim is proper management of the crisis, that is,a response instead of a reaction. The former (response) is a positive, well-planned, deliberate, intentional approach to dealing with the crisis as against the latter (reaction) which involves an irrational, emotional approach to dealing with a life crisis.Adequate and regular capacity building for life enables us to respond rather than reacting to life crisis!
In subsequent articles under this topic, we will talk about the following:
The purpose of life crisis
how to deal with life crisis
how to deal with a full blown life crisis that leads to traumatic experiences
aftermath of life crisis.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did, writing it.
Doctor Michaels
Self Actualization and Personal Therapy Program
Quantum Leap Consulting.
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