Relationship Trauma or Breakup
Ending a relationship has become quite common nowadays, often for reasons like “ our vibe does not match, or we are not compatible.” However, ending a relationship is one of the immense psychological traumas, where an individual may experience extreme emotional pain, and this pain may lead to anxiety, depression, and suicidal behavior. Recently I have seen one case of suicide.
In my eight years of clinical experience, I have found three causes. Why do individuals think or commit suicide? There are three important causes including lack of family support, emotional weakness/low emotional intelligence, and loneliness. These causes play a significant role in suicide after a breakup. These causes create various challenges after a breakup:
- Not accepting the reality: Initially, individuals often refuse to accept the breakup, which causes extreme emotional pain because they do not believe that they have failed or that someone has deceived them.
- Extreme emotional pain: After a breakup, an individual heart is broken into a million pieces. They cry a lot due to the extreme heart pain.
- Blocked rational thoughts: an individual could not solve or generate new thinking due to dominant negative emotions.
- Putting effort into saving relationships: Individuals who try to save the relationship and repeat the same behavior again and again because he/she struggles to think rationally.
- Difficulty forgetting memory: Flashback often their memory bothers them and influence irrelevant behavior.
- The feeling of guilt: Individuals often feel a range of emotions after a breakup, especially guilt.
- Panic attack: They feel so helpless trying to reconnect with their partner, and they panic and faint frequently.
- Loneliness: after the breakup, they feel loneliness, and these things lead to depressive symptoms.
- Suicidal thoughts: Feelings of loneliness, helplessness, and feelings of guilt lead to suicidal thoughts.
