{"quotes":[{"text":"But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","complex-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanize","held-captive","inhumane","no-longer-human","prisoners-of-war","self-respect","survivors-of-war","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","war","worthlessness"],"id":47774,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.","author":"Anna Funder","tags":["human","humanity","no-longer-human","political-prisoner","prison","ptsd","torture","trauma","traumatic","traumatic-experiences"],"id":176974,"author_id":"Anna+Funder"},{"text":"You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["combat-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanized","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-ptsd","mental-health","military-ptsd","no-longer-human","traumatized"],"id":204056,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"I do not think the long-range bullets I fire provide the mark of a man; I am only dimly aware that they are dehumanising me.They are my opium tto see me through my time here. But with each hit they give, they only provide a feeling respite from the past I cannot escape from and thre present I have chosen to mire myself in. And, grounded as I am in the reality of this hill, I do not yet fully appreciate how this addiction is infecting my future with malediction.With this clinical, psychopathically detached behaviour considered as normal, proper and expected on this hall, I cannot yet stop to think - because I cannot allow myself to here - of how hese respites may be blackening my soul in all the time I will have left on my own back Home - should I even live through the remainder of my months here, in some other corner of this Hell of a country.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["addiction","dehumanized","detached","detachment","dissociation","mechanical-mind","military","military","no-longer-human","opium","ptsd","soldier","war"],"id":241924,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"Much, much later. When I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. It is just as equally not a badge of h.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["acute-stress-reaction","army","army-in-afghanistan","army","automaton","casualty-of-war","combat-ptsd","crock-of-shit","dead-inside","depersonalised","depersonalization","depersonalized","detached","dissociated-state","dissociative","dumb","emotionless","flashback","flashbacks","idolisation","idolized","mechanical","military","military-psychiatry","military","naive","naive-soul","no-longer-human","nothingness","numb","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","posttraumatic","posttraumatic-stress","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","robotic","soldier","stare","thousand-yard-stare","traumatic-stress","traumatized","true-warrior","unemotional","warrior","warrior-qoutes","wounded-warriors"],"id":403401,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}