Recovering From a Crisis| Psychological Resources
The death of a loved one, relationship breakdown, job loss, serious illness … All these are examples of really difficult situations in the life of a person. How do people deal with them? What is the best way to do without those situations end up with us? This article will try to answer these questions.
The key concept is resilience, since the most important is not what happens to us, but how we react and if we can recover. This capacity is not something extraordinary, as most people can recover after living situations of this kind, though, the more traumatic than the event itself, the more affected a person and the more difficult recovery.
Have a good resilience does not mean not feeling anything or indifferent. Emotional pain and other negative emotions are common and normal in people who have experienced such events and the road to recovery is often difficult and painful. Resilience is a trait that a person does or not, but involves a series of behaviors, thoughts and actions that can be learned and developed.
Factors in resilience: psychological resources
There are a number of psychological resources that are helpful when facing a crisis or traumatic or stressful situations. The most important are:
a) Ability to tolerate and manage strong emotions
It is the ability to feel deep feelings, and intense emotional pain without causing permanent disruption of psychological balance. The intense feelings can frighten many people because they feel overwhelmed by them and have the impression that they can not endure such pain or destroy them. To strengthen this ability can do the following:
Explore the significance to you such emotions: why do you fear? What do you think would happen? What do you fear exactly?
Use metaphors to describe how you feel. For example, some people feel like they are in a deep, dark who can not leave, others as if they were holding a heavy wall will crumble on them at any time, and so on. Then try to transform this image. For example, you can imagine that you break the wall slowly and let it fall slowly, or can imagine you turn a torch into the well or hear the voice of someone calling you from outside, and so on. This will help you practice to tolerate and neutralize certain emotions. You can also imagine facing the storm, you get carried away by flood waters where they wish to take, and so on.
Look for objects, places or people that serve you for help and comfort. For example, hold in your hands an object (like a child with teddy bears), give a relaxing shower, etc.. Try to articles or safe places and not harmful (not to resort to alcohol, drugs or sex to get away).
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