Emotional abilities
Emotional Trauma Enhances Cognitive Abilities
Emotions are everywhere and are used for everything in this world right now.
Especially when marketing comes the corner or politics around. Those people play with the emotions of their followers and buyers to get their attention.
I think there will be a lot of people in the world having trauma in some sort of way. And when you have trauma’s then maybe you have habits that cause that you do things in a certain way to cope with them.
What if your teacher told you that you are not able to make that test well as the teacher told you: ”you are not good at grammar”. This makes you very uncertain about what you are going to do in the future and it shapes you as a human being. It hurts you so much.
Because this has been told you several times by the teacher, that you don’t like yourself anymore and you think you can’t do anything anymore. You become more insecure about yourself as a whole person.
It is the same when your classmates bully you about having lice while you don’t have them.
What does emotional trauma enhance cognitive abilities really mean?
I’m really curious about what emotional trauma enhances cognitive abilities really mean.
Before thinking about it, I looked up what each of these words actually means.
According to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries cognitive means: “connected with mental processes of understanding.” This word Original comes from the late 16th century: “from medieval Latin cognitivus, from cognit- ‘known’, from the verb cognoscere ‘get to know’.”
According to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, enhance means: “enhance something to increase or further improve the good quality, value or status of somebody/something” and the word originally comes from the Middle English (formerly also as inhance): “from Anglo-Norman French enhauncer, based on Latin in- (expressing intensive force) + Altus ‘high’. The word originally meant ‘elevate’ (literally and figuratively), later ‘exaggerate, make appear greater’, also ‘raise the value or price of something’. Current senses date from the early 16th century.”
According to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, emotional means: “connected with people’s feelings (is with the emotions), causing people to feel strong emotions”
According to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, trauma means: “a mental condition caused by severe shock, especially when the harmful effects last for a long time” and the word Original comes from the late 17th century: “from Greek, literally ‘wound’.”
So, when you’re having a trauma of something you have been through, you think about it a lot of times and you take actions towards it, like avoiding contact with people. You think every teacher is the same and every human being will hurt you the way your classmates did.
Our behaviour
Thus our behaviour towards ourselves and our friends, classmates, teacher, family and whoever is involved in our life makes that we act the way we act because of all the negative issues we have of the negative events happening in our lives.
These negative events are trauma we have gotten from the past. That is a wound on our soul. That would not heal (fast). These wounds come from a feeling you have, but didn’t get or didn’t expect at all.
You can improve your thoughts, habits and what you do from the trauma(‘s you got. To understand better the situations, habits or whatever it may take to improve these things in your life.
It all has to do with our behavior towards others and ourselves. That behavior we need to get through life.
This story has been published on Quora earlier.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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