Symptom development and emotional pain

Demetrios Peratsakis, MS, PD, LPC, ACS Training in Counseling and Psychotherapy January 2017

Symptom Development Acute or Prolonged Stress Result in Psychological and Biological Changes

Emotional Pain

1) Loss

Anger,

2) Trauma (harm) or

Guilt,

3) Conflict (power-struggles)

and Shame

Demetrios Peratsakis, MS, PD, LPC, ACS

Anxiety and Depression

Symptoms

 1) Loss, 2) Trauma (harm) and 3) Conflict (power-struggles) are natural

conditions of the human experience, most resulting from social interactions and interpersonal transactions (relationships)  Each results in varying degrees of Anger, Guilt and Shame  The resulting stress may be sudden or prolonged (tension) and is

expressed in the psychological and biochemical conditions we call anxiety and depression.  Unresolved, they result in the kind of behaviors or transactional

patterns we regard as dysfunctional and call “symptoms”