Tsunami Approaching

If you have listened to my presentation or seen me speak live, you may remember my demonstration of "Cumulative Emotional Trauma", why we can't see this type of trauma, and how we can better manage it by being more aware and systematic in our approach. It pays dividends.

Unseen or ignored Trauma erodes your belief in self, your belief in others, and your belief in your organization. It can cause personal and business relationships to be compromised at a high cost. The good news is that there is a simple, effective, and natural remedy.

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The Tsunami of Emotional Trauma is Approaching

If you are like me, you would probably like to look at some facts about cumulative emotional trauma and what you might do about it.

Question

Q. How can you better stormproof your life and business?

Q. How can I thrive during these difficult times?

A. By becoming aware

Let's take a look at some of the data associated with a past incident of catastrophic physical & and cumulative emotional trauma. 9/11 in New York. This tragedy may give us a tiny window into the near and far future of the blast radius of emotional trauma.

Research into how our brains adapt during cumulative emotional trauma paints a compelling picture of our short-term needs as a human species as well as the current state of our mental health system. This paper may give us some insight into what we will require in the coming 5-15 years to deal with this quickly approaching tsunami called Cumulative Emotional Trauma and its symptoms.

Here we can examine the impact of emotional trauma on people within close proximity to the 9/11 attacks and then simply expand it into the trauma we are facing today on a national and global scale.

1. The aftermath of a global pandemic
2. 2 international wars are underway.

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The Aftermath of 9/11: Effect of Intensity and Recency of Trauma on Outcome

2007 paper by Barbara Ganzel and B. J. Casey, Cornell University &

Gary Glover, Stanford University

Does trauma exposure have a long-term impact on the brain and behavior of healthy individuals? The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging to assess the impact of proximity to the disaster of September 11, 2001, on amygdala function in 22 healthy adults.

Amygdala - The amygdala participates in the regulation of autonomic and endocrine functions, decision-making, and adaptations of instinctive and motivational behaviors to changes in the environment through implicit associative learning, changes in short- and long-term synaptic plasticity, and activation of the fight-or-flight ...

More than three years after the terrorist attacks, bilateral amygdala activity in response to viewing fearful faces compared to calm ones was higher in people who were within 1.5 miles of the World Trade Center on 9/11, relative to those who were living more than 200 miles away (all were living in the New York metropolitan area at the time of scan). This activity mediated the relationship between group status and current symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. In turn, the effect of group status on both amygdala activation (fearful vs. calm faces) and current symptoms was statistically explained by time since worst trauma in the lifetime and intensity of the worst trauma, as indicated by reported symptoms at the time of the trauma.

These data are consistent with a model of heightened amygdala reactivity following high-intensity trauma exposure, with relatively slow recovery.

Conclusions

Close proximity to the WTC on September 11th, 2001, was associated with increased amygdala activation and higher levels of symptoms in healthy adults. Amygdala activation mediated the association between trauma exposure and current symptoms, suggesting a role for amygdala hyperexcitability in the association between trauma exposure and subsequent vulnerability to mental health disorders. Overall, amygdala activation was found to decrease with time since worst trauma, and to increase with the intensity of each individual’s worst-ever trauma, as measured by symptoms at time of trauma. Together, these two variables statistically explained the effect of proximity to the 9/11 disaster on both amygdala activation and current symptoms. This finding suggests that there is heightened amygdala activity from high-intensity traumas and that recovery occurs over many years, even in those without a current clinical disorder.

It's information like this that gives us a glimpse into what we face as the state of our mental health system.

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