Multiple Trauma's Article

[Lady of Longbourn]

Hope this is in the right spot. I thought of something to write about but... Don't know if its already covered?

I know I have read about if you have multiple trauma's your changes of getting PTSD increases. Things like: How backed up with research is that? If the the trauma's are similar does that increase the chances?

Would be willing to write about that...

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

or is that to general? And can fit in with something else?

 

[anthony]

I would say that comes down to how much you believe you have the subject. If you said to me that you only had a good paragraph of information on how the snowball effect of trauma effects PTSD occurring, then I would say, add it to the PTSD page as its own heading and paragraph.

If you said to me that you have a good page of information to write on that topic, then it would warrant its own page under the trauma node, something like:

• Trauma Effect
• Multiple Trauma
• Compounding Trauma

The known names given are typically:

• Butterfly Effect (Some small change can compound to something much worse, aka. chaos theory)
• Snowball Effect (Starts at a small state and builds upon itself)

Domino effect would not be applicable to compounding trauma. Saying this, neither of the latter are explicit for PTSD... so maybe an invention of the name, Trauma Effect, you seen it hear first! :) You could then relate the new name applicable to PTSD immediately to the snowball effect, then just use the trauma effect from then on, so people get what it is, but the name changed to reflect trauma vs. generalized.

Thoughts, suggestions...

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

You gave me lots to think about...I will work on this when I have to energy to do so.

In the meantime, I am sure I will have some brainstorms.

:)

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

So would starting a poll about how many trauma's people have had be a good source? Or at least a foundation?

I know its been noticed, but not sure how studied. I haven't had to time to look it up yet.

 

[anthony]

There already is such polls.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Searched and didn't find any. I will search again. However I just posted it.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

I found one. But I want it to be more detailed then what the older poll is.

 

[anthony]

Try looking through the pages vs. searching:

[DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/who-primarily-traumatized-you-part-iii.4291/[/DLMURL]
[DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/how-many-traumatic-incidents-have-you-experienced.2060/[/DLMURL]
[DLMURL]http://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/who-primarily-traumatized-you-part-ii.4222/[/DLMURL]

 

[anthony]

I have put that into moderation for now, as trying to find such figures from here will take a year of obtaining statistics vs. you getting them from sources already obtained here, or statistical journals already published on these topics.

What do you believe you will obtain from these specific answers you have written vs. journal statistical data already openly available?

The reason I ask is firstly, your opening question is really ambiguous, being general trauma's endured vs. abnormally traumatic events. Getting into a fight at school is traumatic, but not abnormally traumatic outside the expected in life. Any person who didn't say five or more, would either be a liar or have been wrapped in bubble their entire life, and even that in itself would be traumatic along with other aspects.

My point is that if you are obtaining research for a page, then it needs to be just that... research. You would have to run a study for a year to obtain accurate research from just this site.