Introduction to Crisis Intervention

This will be the beginning of a series of blog entries on the crises and traumatic events experienced in my life.  Writing these blogs had not been easy and was a challenging task, as it involved events that happened a long time ago. In addition, I’m not entirely certain whether certain thoughts and feelings belonging to a particular event had came from the same event, or were from other events. Also, I’m not certain as well whether my subsequent behaviour to the events were on the same day, or on subsequent days. I might have imagined, or remembered wrongly some of the reactions and feelings I had felt during these events. In addition, there might have been defensive repression in nearly all events.

The traumatic events that happened in my life was a result of my upbringing, my hobbies, my family environment, the surrounding circumstances and the choices I have made. Thus, I felt it was necessary to provide the background of my family, so that a proper perspective can be provided.

The following is a list of events in my life that I can remember. I believed these events are traumatic events for me as they happened a long time ago, yet I am still able to remember them. Most of these events will become a blog entry in itself.

• Separated from my mother for 5 days,
• having both my sister’s head and my head knocked together forcefully by our father,
• death of my grandfather - Lim Mui Er
  
• supporting my mother when she was evicted,
• getting evicted from home several times with and without my sister,
• having my nose punched by my father,
• learning that I have a brain tumour,
• losing nearly $20,000 on the stock market,
• having a bus accident,
• losing a great friendship.