Specialist Clinical Psychologist Özgenur Taşkın, who stated that sudden traumatic events such as earthquakes and natural disasters increase one’s coping strength, said that if crises can be transformed, he can give lessons, and this is called transforming trauma. Pointing out that the traumatic events experienced in such situations do not change, but the coping power of the individuals increases, Taşkın said, “Three concepts are very important in order to increase the coping power. These are meaningful production, meaningful relationship, and purpose that transcends itself.” Taşkın said that these three concepts push the person to return to routines, hold tight to their loved ones who are still alive, and target them.
Üsküdar University NPİSTANBUL Hospital Expert Clinical Psychologist Özgenur Taşkın made an assessment on post-traumatic growth. Özgenur Taşkın said that sudden traumatic events such as earthquakes and natural disasters increase one’s coping strength.
Personality traits may differ in being affected by an earthquake.
Noting that people who have confidence problems and have a perfectionist structure in crisis situations such as earthquakes will have more difficulties, Taşkın said, “We hear the phrase ‘I was traumatized’ a lot during the earthquake. But here personality traits are very important. It can be predicted that in natural disasters, “perfectionist” people will be greatly affected and will not be able to tolerate this situation. Since people’s ‘basic security’ needs are deeply shaken during the earthquake, those who already have a ‘confidence problem’ and a ‘perfectionist’ structure will have twice as much difficulty in this situation. Triggering is also a possible situation for people who experience psychiatric illness after the earthquake. warned.
After the earthquake, nothing will be the same
Specialist Clinical Psychologist Özgenur Taşkın, who stated that the reactions given after the earthquake may also differ from person to person, said, “The serious disruption in the search for security and meaning with the earthquake completely destroyed the trust areas of people and created a very different need for trust from person to person. For this reason, the reactions given after trauma will also vary from person to person. Pain is common, no matter how much the reactions vary from person to person. We are in great pain, but pain is a concept that can be transformed. We can grow with pain. When we say that nothing will be the same after the earthquake, it is actually very important to address the person’s post-traumatic growth.” said.
Can teach lessons when crises are transformed
Reminding the words of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “Never waste a good crisis,” Specialist Clinical Psychologist Özgenur Taşkın said, “Crises are not an opportunity, but they can teach us lessons if we transform them. This can also be called transforming trauma. In such cases, the traumatic events experienced do not change, but the coping power of the people increases. Three concepts are very important in increasing coping strength. These are meaningful production, meaningful relationship, and self-transcendent purpose. These three concepts push us to return to our routines, to hold tight to our loved ones who are alive and to set goals. It will also be a very important factor for our psychological resilience that the shared pain we experience binds us together, that we return to our routines and set new goals in the name of science.” he spoke.
