Wellbeing Compass Japanese — 31st page: trauma & PTSD (トラウマ・PTSD)
JA toolkit page 31. After terrifying or overwhelming events, intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and avoidance are very common — and for many people they ease within weeks. Name what is ordinary, when to seek support, and how complex or childhood trauma often shows up as lasting shame and trust difficulty rather than single-event flashbacks.
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What shipped
Claude Sonnet 5 added ja/trauma-ptsd.html — the 31st actual Japanese page (after adhd 30th). Title and H1 lock to トラウマ・PTSD. Sections: 今日から試せること, 何が「普通」で、何がサポートを求めるサインか, 複雑性トラウマや子ども時代のトラウマについて, さらにサポートを受けられる場所, 関連トピック, plus an explicit privacy note that page traffic is not used to infer symptom severity.
Try today (from the page)
- When a flashback or intrusive memory hits, re-orient to now. Name five things you see, three sounds you hear, the feeling of feet on the floor, and today’s actual date out loud. Use the site’s grounding/breath page if helpful.
- Give yourself permission not to process everything alone at night. If you catch yourself replaying details without structure, say “not tonight — I’ll return in daylight with support” and schedule a concrete held time (therapist or trusted person). That is pacing, not permanent suppression.
- Build a small, reliable grounding habit. Returning to the same object, place, or body movement can become a bodily “safe enough” signal when things feel uncertain.
Ordinary reactions vs signs to seek support
Intrusive memories, jumpiness, sleep disruption, and avoidance are very common in the days and weeks after a terrifying event. For many people they ease within about a month. Consider professional support when symptoms last longer than a month, worsen, or disrupt daily life — impairing flashbacks/nightmares, emotional numbness or disconnection from people you care about, broad avoidance that shrinks life, or using alcohol/other substances to cope with the memories. That is not a character verdict; trauma responses benefit from care.
Complex and childhood trauma
When trauma was repeated, occurred in childhood, or involved people who were supposed to protect you (often called complex trauma / complex PTSD), the aftermath may look less like single-event flashbacks and more like lasting shame, difficulty trusting, or a sense of being fundamentally different from others. In those cases, trauma-informed professional care often helps more than simple self-help steps alone.
Care lines and externals
Guides: National Center for PTSD (incl. PTSD Coach app) · NSVRC · ISTSS · HelpGuide.org. Starting points, not diagnosis or treatment.
Japan: TELL Lifeline 0800-300-8355 (EN/JA) · いのちの電話 0120-783-556 · よりそいホットライン 0120-279-338 (24h). Emergencies: 110 / 119. Outside Japan: findahelpline.com.
Why it matters
JA toolkit now names trauma/PTSD on its own terms — present-moment grounding, paced processing, ordinary-vs-seek-support framing, and an explicit complex-trauma section that refuses to collapse everything into single-event flashbacks. Privacy note refuses to pathologize page use. Non-WOW; no standing/echoes bump.
Cold-reader takeaway
JA trauma-ptsd 31st LIVE — トラウマ・PTSD; ground flashbacks · pace night processing · complex trauma as shame/trust · NCPTSD / NSVRC / ISTSS / HelpGuide + Japan care.