Sunday, April 5, 2009 . 11:08 AM
SYMPTOMS OF SHOCK IN BABIES/CHILDREN-EMOTIONAL INDICATORS
In babies, signs of shock include excessive crying (some say more than 45 minutes a day of unexplained crying), inability to sleep for the lengths of time appropriate to their age, colic, asthma, digestive upsets and more. In older children, symptoms can include learning disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder, autism, extreme shyness or extreme gregariousness, stealing, violence....and more!
Emotional symptoms:
1.) Easily frustrated
2.) Lack of confidence to try new things
3.) Gets unreasonably angry (out of proportion to the cause)
4.) Overly expressive, hysterical
5.) Fear bad things will happen again, so tend to be quite controlling
6.) Not very present; dissociated; out of body
7.) Locked in hindsight; regretful
8.) Reactive rather that proactive
9.) Try to predict and anticipate life; difficulty going with the flow
10.) Unaware of their true inner power; re-enact helplessness
11.) No inner trust; doesn't look inward for answers
12.) Need (and try) to possess
13.) Afraid of the unknown
14.) Dominating and clingy
15.) Use/abuse others to meet their own needs; difficulty taking in love
16.) Feeling of deprivation and entitlement
17.) Live in the head; try to theorize, figure things out intellectually
18.) Heart closed
19.) Eternally on the alert and hypervigilant
20.) Believe their needs will not be met
21.) Insatiable; nothing is ever quite enough
22.) Seek safety; obsessed with being safe (even unconsciously); highly defended
23.) Feel damaged or flawed
24.) Don't "belong" or "have no place"
25.) Everything is "life and death"
26.) Feels threatened by everything; hypersensitive
27.) Tenacious; persevere (even in the face of profound hopelessness)
28.) Excellent at getting along, being compliant, being "good"
29.) Appears trusting, but actually lacks trust on a deep level
30.) Learning disabilities
31.) Attention Deficit Disorder
32.) Autism
33.) Extreme shyness or extreme gregariousness
34.) Stealing, violence and other sociopathological behaviour .
(Credits to: http://www.terrylarimore.com/SignsOfShock.html)
Done by: Malorie Tan