- Re-experiencing the event: Vividly reliving the trauma unexpectedly and becoming very upset?
- Avoidance and numbing: Avoiding people, places and things that remind you of the trauma, increased isolation from other people and feeling numb?
- You're experiencing recurring health issues?
- Discomforting feelings: Pains, Aches, Cramps, pins and Needles, numbness, palpitations, disturbed sleep pattern?
- Unexplained psychosomatic issues manifesting in physical body: Low mood, alternating mood swings, fatigue, burnout, sleepless or ver sleeping but waking up tired, unregulated digestion and bowel, dull pains all over the body, palpitations or irregular heartbeat, trembling hands and legs?
- Difficult heavy emotions and thoughts, which repeat in your mind on a loop and makes you overwhelmed, anxious, uneasy over and over again?
- Questions which have seemingly no answers: Why did it happen? If I had done something else…something differently then situation would have been different today!
- If “this” is the end result? Then what is the whole oint of moving ahead in life? Maybe life will jolt me again!
- Suicidal Thoughts or Tendencies: In extreme cases, thoughts of ending one's life or engaging in self-destructive behavior as a way to escape the emotional pain?
- Overwhelming Sadness: A constant feeling of sadness or unhappiness that is hard to shake off, affecting one's mood, outlook, and daily activities?
- Isolation and Withdrawal: A tendency to isolate oneself from friends, family, and social gatherings, leading to a sense of loneliness and further exacerbating emotional pain?
- Loss of Interest: A lack of interest in activities once enjoyed, leading to disengagement from hobbies, work, and social life?
- Fear of the Future: A feeling of dread or anxiety about what the future holds, often accompanied by feelings of hopelessness?
- Physical Ailments: Experiencing physical symptoms like stomachaches, headaches, or unexplained aches and pains that may have a psychological origin?
- What else? Where else? Feeling of “My life is meaningless / over now”
- Overwhelming “Why Me?”
- Experiencing the cut in the fabric of time: constant flashes of “Before and After” of the related event and experiencing dark emotions?