Focusing on your community is one way you can help yourself and others.
can feel that added anxiety from war and other stressful events can feel like too much to process. For those experiencing “trauma with a lowercase ‘t,’” piled onto previous trauma with any kind of “t,” here’s how to cope.It can feel like Ukraine and many other conflicts are hundreds or thousands of miles away, yet they stay close in our minds and hearts as we watch shocking and disturbing images on social media. We can feel powerless, contributing to our stress and trauma.
“It’s fair to take a more broad view of the impact of traumatic experiences—these can be anything that leaves us with a feeling of uncertainty, of confusion,” says Ross Goodwin, a psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente. He adds that acknowledging one traumatic event layered on the next is a “useful framework” for defining our current experience and finding ways to cope.
“We can acknowledge that there may be people in our community who do have a more direct connection with what’s going on across the ocean. [Be] attuned to that and listen for community members who may have family or have heritage in Eastern Europe,” he says.
“Take back a sense of ownership, or empowerment, or self-advocacy—that ‘I can make a difference, I can contribute.’ That’s healing… trauma typically takes away people’s sense of power or agency,” Goodwin says.If you feel like the world is in total disarray, your feelings are valid. But Goodwin says that it’s important to use what we know, and what we have learned during the pandemic, as a source of comfort in dealing with multiple stressors.
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