Interrupted Life: Childhood Trauma and Its Consequences

Psychological childhood traumas or violence experienced in childhood manifest as unpredictable emotions and reactions in adulthood. Traumatic experiences in childhood lead to mental disorders, addictions, and physical health problems.

Psychological childhood traumas or violence experienced in childhood manifest as unpredictable emotions and reactions in adulthood. Traumatic experiences in childhood lead to mental disorders, addictions, and physical health problems.

In one of his articles, the renowned American psychiatrist Dr. Bruce Perry describes trauma as an experience that irreversibly changes the brain. Any experience changes our brain, whether it is good, such as piano lessons, or bad, such as sexual abuse or war. This is because the brain is designed to change in response to patterned, repetitive stimulation. Stimulation associated with fear and trauma leaves a lifelong imprint.Since the brain is very active in development in the first years of life, negative and positive experiences strongly influence brain development during this period. Traumatic events change several areas of the brain that respond to threat. To heal childhood trauma, therapeutic interventions must activate the areas of the brain that have been altered by trauma.

 
Working with childhood trauma is quite difficult. That is why the path to healing should begin with a psychotherapist who understands how traumatic experiences affect the brain.

Dr. Claudia Elsig, one of the best practicing psychotherapists in Switzerland, opened the new generation psychiatric clinic CALD, CALDA. where childhood traumas and other mental disorders are treated in a personalized manner, without using psychotropic drugs.

CALD works according to the methodology of integrative medicine. This approach connects practical and theoretical knowledge from different areas of traditional and alternative medicine. The focus is on the patient. Each person is unique, his physics and psyche are unique. The clinic solves the main problem in modern psychiatry - it personalizes treatment. Therapy is based on the development of an individual program for each patient.

Dr. Elsig's clinic is one of the best psychiatric clinics in Switzerland. Elite service, six-star living conditions, exceptional confidentiality are not the main advantages of CALD. CALDA. The basis is the medical staff, which consists of professors and doctors of medical sciences.

Childhood traumas require the most sensitive, empathetic therapy. During treatment, the patient needs non-stop support. In Dr. Elsig's clinic, each patient is assigned a personal therapist who is always nearby.

• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
• Adjustment disorders;
• Acute stress reaction.

Particularly severe is PTSD. It is also faced by war veterans, so some sources call it "Vietnam syndrome" or "Afghan syndrome." Post-traumatic stress disorder negatively affects the patient's quality of life. PTSD is characterized by bouts of painful memories of a psycho-traumatic event. The patient may be constantly haunted by nightmares and, at times of exacerbation, thoughts of suicide.

Dr. Elsig and the team of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts CALDA clinic at CALD clinic help patients overcome the consequences of childhood trauma, regain confidence, control over emotions, and get rid of constant anxiety and fears.

The clinic's motto is "New paths to a free life." Childhood trauma, like other mental disorders, limits freedom of action, emotions, and thoughts. To come to terms with the problem, hush it up, or "drown it out" with drugs and alcohol is a path to even greater lack of freedom. An experienced psychotherapist will help you regain yourself, leave the pain in the past, and accept this world anew.