Rohan Misthry

But That Happened Years Ago! Sometimes people can experience difficult feelings or thoughts that seem disconnected from what is happening in their present life. They may have experienced something difficult many years ago and feel that they have “moved on”, only to be surprised when anxiety, other difficult emotions or memories emerge later. A common belief is that because so much time has passed, it can't be possible that the experience is still affecting us. However, the pa

Recognising trauma as a personal experience Sometimes we can experience events in our life that are highly stressful and difficult to cope with. We might see these experiences as examples of trauma. How we understand something as traumatic is very personal and subjective, other people can’t know or decide what is or has been traumatic for you. Even two people who experience the same event, where both understand it as traumatic, can react to it very differently. Examples of t