Trauma and PTSD

Articles on trauma and PTSD: how frightening or overwhelming experiences stay with you, from a robbery or an accident to a harsh childhood, and what helps. They're for anyone still feeling the effects of something that happened, recently or long ago.

Trauma isn't only the big events. Many Nigerians quietly wonder whether the flogging, the kneeling in the sun or the public shaming they grew up with counts. It can, even when parents acted out of love and fear. It may show up years later as anxiety, people-pleasing, sudden anger, nightmares or a feeling of being far away from yourself. Stigma says "be strong", and faith sometimes gets set against therapy, but the two don't have to compete.

Start with childhood trauma and how it shows up in adults or PTSD in adults. If you often feel unreal or detached, read dissociation explained.

You don't have to tell your whole story in a first session, and you decide what to talk about. Licensed therapists who work with trauma and PTSD on Mytherapist.ng offer sessions by video, voice or chat.