When Medical Care Becomes Traumatic: Understanding Medical Trauma and How Therapy Can Help

The moment someone you loved was rushed away from you and you had no idea what was happening. Medical care is supposed to help us feel better. But sometimes the experience of receiving medical care can leave its own emotional wounds. This is something we call medical trauma. And one of the most important things I want people to understand is that medical trauma isn't determined only by how serious a procedure or diagnosis looked from the outside. It is also about how you experienced what happened to you.