Trauma and coping with your feelings

When someone very important to us dies, especially if this is a parent, a sibling or someone who cared for us a lot (this could be someone else who was a parent figure to us or a friend) we experience something called trauma. We often describe the death of someone we love as a traumatic life event or traumatic experience.

When we experience trauma our brains respond in a particular way to what has happened, this can cause us to feel very upset and distressed or to feel ‘numb’ or ‘blank’. It might mean that sometimes we remember things or have thoughts and feelings when we are least expecting them. Trauma can cause our brains to be overwhelmed. So we may not ‘process’ what we have experienced in the beginning, this might happen later on, even years after.

We are here to help you whenever you need it, whether this is in the days, weeks and months after someone has died or years later.