Unresolved traumatic experience can give rise to a wide range of symptoms. These may include any of the following:

• anxiety
• depression
• stress 
• hyper-vigilance (always being on the look out for danger), inability to relax
• flashbacks (includes feeling like past events are happening right now, or unsafe for no obvious reason)  
• nightmares, disturbed sleep
• numbness or lack of feeling or emotion, inability to feel pleasure
• panic attacks
• angry outbursts
• dissociation/ 'spacing-off'/ de-realisation (things not feeling real)
• difficulty distinguishing what's important right now
• self-blame, guilt
• difficulty with relationships, sexual issues
• feeling like there's something terribly wrong
• feeling overwhelmed by apparently small things
• suicidal thoughts
• use of drugs, alcohol, self-harm or obsessive work to 'escape' or deaden feeling  
• exhaustion, health issues and more.......
   

If you have experienced overwhelming events and suffer from any of these symptoms, then you may be interested to find out more about trauma therapy.
 

 "After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment." Judith Herman: Trauma and Recovery