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Trauma rage attacks are sudden overwhelming bursts of anger or aggression triggered by unresolved trauma, often stemming from complex-post traumatic-stress-disorder. This occurs when a traumatised nervous system misinterprets everyday stressors as life-threatening, that pushes the body into an extreme fight or flight survival response. This person will feel frustration, trauma including rage. This is a deeply physiological experience that is felt here during this attack. The brains threat detection centres go on high alert, causing a surge of a adrenaline and cortisol that makes the anger feel disproportionate or entirely out of control. This can be called the black rage effect. Hyper-arousal and living in a chronic state of alarm exhausts the brains emotional regulation, capacities causing the individual to snap at minor triggers. Injustice rage can also act as an emotional response to a profound sense of unfairness or a violation for trust and boundaries that is tied to the past effective coping treatment strategy. Managing trauma related rage, requires a focus on nervous system regulation and addressing the root cause of the trauma. Somatic grounding techniques like breathing, splashing cold water on your face, will help you get out of fight or flight state. Identifying personal triggers noticing the early physiological signs of anger, clenched fists, racing heart, taking a time out, before the rage escalates further. The physical symptoms are a pounding heart-beat, chest tightness, racing thoughts, shaking, tingling sensation. Behavioural outbursts may manifest as shouting, slamming doors, throwing things or directing intense verbal lashing at loved ones. Post-outburst the survivor often experiences intense physical exhaustion, followed by heavy feelings of guilt, shame, or embarrassment. Trauma causes rage as this is a mask for fear, for many people’s anger feels safer to feel and more empowering and more in control, than feeling vulnerable, helpless or terrified. Specialised therapies like eye movement desensitisation, reprogramming with EMDR, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, DBT and trauma focused cognitive behaviour therapy. TFCB are highly effective at retraining the brains trauma responses. So all of these are recommended here to help the person to heal.
