When I heard the term Resilience for the first time I was in a classroom at the university and instantly called my attention causing a positive impact, I began to research about the topic. To understand the power of resilience we must understand its meaning and the need to adopt a resilient behavior when we face a difficult situation.
It is also necessary to know that resilience is not an innate condition of people, that is, no one is born with these abilities or very rarely will have to do with a genetic inheritance, the person becomes resilient as life faces adversity and learn to succeed in this.
In psychology, the ability of a person to overcome traumatic circumstances such as the death of a loved one, an accident, etc.
Emmy Werner, in 1995 refers to three general uses of the term resilience: good development despite high social risk; maintenance of the competences in spite of the continuous stress; and recovery after the trauma.
If we look at the history we can easily find examples of people and entire nations that have managed to recover successfully after very traumatic processes, Europe after the Second World War, the coast of Florida and Louisiana after devastating hurricanes, different nations after natural disasters .
At the end of the Second World War, many European countries were devastated, 40 million people had died and 35 million had been injured, most of them in the USSR, Poland, Germany and Yugoslavia. Countries lost much of their industrial capacity and infrastructure, suffering from lack of food, raw materials and energy.
After programs, alliances and international aid countries were recovering to overcome this traumatic situation and reach modern Europe, it was a very painful process but many countries today enjoy a healthy economy despite having been destroyed almost in its entirety.
Hurricane Katrina was one of the most destructive and the one that caused the most fatalities of the 2005 hurricane season in the Atlantic.
It is the hurricane that has caused the most economic damage, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States. Likewise, Katrina is the sixth most intense of all recorded Atlantic hurricanes. At least 1833 people died due to the hurricane itself or the subsequent floods, becoming the deadliest hurricane in the United States since Hurricane San Felipe II, 1928; the total amount of material damage was initially estimated at 108 billion dollars (2005 USD) almost four times that of the damage caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.
Although the hurricanes hit the coast of the United States year after year, these people are replenished again and again, some leave, others temporarily evacuate but most return to face once again this adverse situation.
This courageous behavior can be defined as resilient, because no matter how many times and how hard you hit adversity you get up you keep moving forward in search of success until you find it, it is possible that some people fail to recover completely, some need psychological help for years, but I'm sure that as a group and individually many manage to overcome this positively.
A friend told me once that there is nothing so terrible to emigrate, but when you are displaced by some conflict Armed, economic situation and other reasons that force you to leave your country, you go to another country in most cases in a disadvantaged situation, you suffer from having to leave behind your roots, your friends, your family, what you have achieved for years suddenly it is no longer there and you begin to live a trauma from which it is very difficult to overcome.
In today's world, there is an unprecedented migration crisis in Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America. It is estimated that the people who left their homes in a forced way are already 68.5 million, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in its latest report Global Trends.
Venezuela is living a very pronounced diaspora, it is a migratory crisis never before experienced by our country that hits the Venezuelan family hard and tears the hearts of our brothers. There are many families that may never recover from this situation, the psychological damage inflicted by this crisis can not yet be quantified.
This process of crisis will highlight the capacity of resilience that Venezuelans have, that is when we will know what the capacity of the Venezuelan people is to overcome very difficult situations. Maybe it is nothing much compared to what the nations suffer that now have armed conflicts and that their population is displaced by these conflicts.
Resilience is what makes the difference between those who suffer depressive or suicidal behaviors and those who raise their heads in the face of adversity, stand up after the fall and achieve their dreams even though they have had a very great loss, it becomes necessary that the human being learn how to handle pain, face adversities of any magnitude, in order to get up, leave behind frustration, pain and refocus on their dreams.
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Have you or your family experienced any adversity that they successfully recovered from? How did you manage to regain yourself? What do you think of the global migration crisis? Has it touched you or Do you know someone who has been forced to emigrate?
