Recently we organised a webinar on Racial Trauma & Healing. Counsellor Rashid Rose opened the floor with a thought provoking, dynamic introduction and discussion.
Racial trauma, or race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), refers to the mental and emotional injury caused by encounters with racial bias and ethnic discrimination, racism, and hate crimes. Any individual that has experienced an emotionally painful, sudden, and uncontrollable racist encounter is at risk of suffering from a race-based traumatic stress injury.
Experiences of race-based discrimination can have detrimental psychological impacts on individuals and their wider communities.
In some individuals, prolonged incidents of racism can lead to symptoms like those experienced with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This can look like depression, anger, recurring thoughts of the event, physical reactions (e.g. headaches, chest pains, insomnia), hypervigilance, low-self-esteem, and mentally distancing from the traumatic events.
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To book a virtual one to one counselling session you can email : emotionalinsight@hotmail.co.uk or call 0203 701 2265 Or outside the UK. WhatsApp call / message 07908 205 575.
2 окт 2024
