1. What is a trauma?
Trauma. His shadow mark the afterlife and creates emotional distress. A psychic trauma is an injury suffered by some people as a result of an event or set of negative events in their lives, affecting them dramatically causing pain and emotional distress.

These negative events leave their mark on the person who suffers. They change their personality and also affect their attitude and behavior to future similar situations. They also try to avoid or flee from these situations as a defense mechanism, not having been able to assimilate or to have adjusted psychologically to the new situation.

It is important to clarify that trauma is sometimes the result of what was seen and not what really happened. May occur, for example, that a person during his childhood he felt rejected or did not feel loved, but this does not mean it actually has been. However, having lived as if it were, will suffer all the consequences of emotional trauma.

2. Who can suffer trauma and why?
A trauma can occur at any age. However, in childhood and adolescence when people are most vulnerable and are more strongly marked by what happens to them. At these ages do not have a definite personality and is unresponsive to address events that adversely affect people.

There are events that mark childhood forever and leave their mark depending mainly on the severity of the event and how often it occurred.

Many children have to face death or divorce of their parents, having to live with this gap forever. Others are victims of abuse, rejection, indifference, overprotection, lack of communication, etc.. Each is affected differently, but having help and support to solve problems, and helps mitigate the situations to be exceeded.

3. Assuming the past
The life of people is full of experiences and memories, some pleasant, others sad and painful. The problem arises when unpleasant memories leave their mark, that is, living with these memories are especially intense and cause deep pain and anguish.

Those who try to forget the suffering and do not succeed, try not to remember, but come to their minds again and again. In this case we are dealing with people who have suffered emotional trauma and have failed to overcome, yet have failed in their past.

Other times it happens that, due to the strong impact that may cause an event in a person, not remember or have memory lapses that prevents you from finding out what had really happened. Traumas of the past are hidden in the unconscious, that they can not live peacefully and to be aware of them to be overcome.

Although not having any memory of what happened and for those who suffer it as if it had not happened, because it actually does not remember the traumas leave footprints so deep that even without remembering, affect personality and daily living.

Many people suffer behavioral disorders or abnormal development of the personality, as a result of those events that do not remember, but you do live in fear. It is essential to discover the source of those fears to learn to deal with the problem and we’ll fix it.

4. How to overcome trauma
Everyone, at any age, can be traumatized by a negative event occurring in a given time. The important thing is to face them and not let it affect you throughout life. This is advisable:

- Having the support of friends and family. In individual cases, support can be found at the social level, by type of trauma they suffer. Battered women or victims of sexual abuse, can go to certain social institutions which have among their functions, to help victims of gender violence or sexual assault.

- Obtain a professional. At certain times you do not have clear what caused the trauma. The main thing in this case, is to discover to understand why the problem and from there to a solution. It is advisable to consult a professional for that through conversations or through some form of therapy that helps you find the source of the problem.

- To overcome the possible feelings of guilt. Some people feel guilty about the incident which caused them trauma. They believe they could have prevented it or it was they who provoked the situation. In these cases, the first is to overcome this feeling of guilt, it should be clear that they are the victims and did absolutely nothing for that to happen.

- Modify behavior. Is to change the thoughts, feelings and emotions. When compared with the traumatic event are a number of irrational behaviors. The practitioner helps to understand the irrationality of such behavior by removing these ideas and modify or change teaching alternatives.