(77) Traumatised -Where?

A trauma may be described as a wound to living tissue caused by a forceful impact of some kind with something around us. A bruise indicates more specifically that the impact ruptured small blood vessels without breaking the surface skin.

Local discoloration may occur as a result of this.These marks are also called "ecchymoses." The force of the impact that causes them is painful. Sometimes a sensitivity may be felt still weeks after. The worst pain is the immediate one.

As the body reacts to the impact, pain flares to reach its maximum in seconds and will resorb itself in accordance with the proportional force encountered and its effect on the tissue. The critical moment seems to be right on impact. That's how these things happen in the first place.

The body instantly absorbs the shock and reacts. Depending on all the factors involved, the possibilities resulting from an impact range from, at worst, sudden death, unconsciousness, and severe uncontrollable pain down to more manageable situations.

This is true even if we limit ourselves to only impacts that leave any bruises without bone fracture or even surface skin breaking. Death, unconsciousness, and severe and extreme pain are still possible. Ecchymoses vary in size and colour from person to person.

It is supposed a similar phenomenon occurs in nonphysical impacts as well, such as with words and situations. Following moments where nothing was seen to touch them or leave any visible bruise after, some people were observed to react considerably.There is a marked difference, it seems, the more violent an impact becomes.

A difference in state of mind and behaviour may occur along with accelerated breathing, heartbeat, and perspiration. There may also be nausea, stupor, and unconsciousness.

Another marked difference is in the length of time such an impact may leave an "apparent" bruise.Varying greatly from person to person in what may cause it, a consistency nevertheless appears in similar reactions that vary in range from very violent and permanently affecting daily life functioning down to mild and unperturbing.

In nonphysical impacts, a reaction may live on incorporated in the personality. If we describe reactions as resulting from non-visible impacts, these bruises may become part of the personality.Memories are a good example of such bruises. In both physical and nonphysical impacts, healing varies from person to person according to the force encountered.

The amount of time that pain may remain associated with nonphysical impacts is very high. The pain may last a lifetime, often causing more suffering than physical ones.

Despite the wider scope and variety existing among non-physical impacts, the relatively harmless and predictable physical ones, depending on impact, are considered more seriously, with more immediate credibility.

There is a tendency to describe perturbed individuals as being "weak" or "weaker." Their credibility is also questioned sometimes, and treatment is slower and less straightforward than with physical ones.It helps to see something and be able to make an obvious link between your pain and what is seen with the naked eye.

It has become fashionable to use "traumatized" as having painful memories incorporated in the personality that impair daily thinking and functioning to varying degrees. This happens much less, especially to this degree, with physical impacts.

Through a friend's letter in university, I have found out that a new machine was invented, or rather, that the uses of a certain machine have been put to use with another in a new way, allowing the head to be visualized on a screen in traumatic moments and even years after.

Much like an x-ray, images reveal darkened spots in different locations of the cerebral area.It was reasonable to assume something really did injure someone at such an impact. The dark forms revealed in the images are bruises from ruptured blood vessels.

The news didn't create much excitement. It was as had been supposed already, and treatment remains the same. So no breakthrough here. But these bruises are closer to us now, by that much; they aren't alone as much, and maybe there's hope in that