Trauma Mastery

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Trauma mastery according to me is a factor for dealing with trauma. It has been helpful in dealing with trauma in the most effective way possible. There is this experience that I experienced recently that left me traumatized. I was involved in a car accident together with a friend of mine where I lost her after she succumbed to the injury on the way to the hospital. To enable fast emotional healing, I had to master the trauma and come up with a way to overcome them.
I have been practising various techniques to deal with the traumatic stress that I got during this unfortunate event. First, I limited media exposure because everything in the news about car accident would affect me. There also others video clips that are spreading on the social

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