{"quotes":[{"text":"In 2006, there is no army of recovered memory therapists, and Dr McNally’s assumptions about patients with PTSD and those working in this field are troubling. Owing to past debates, those working in the PTSD field are perhaps more knowledgeable than others about malingered, factitious, and iatrogenic variants.Why, then, does Dr McNally attack PTSD as a valid diagnosis, demean those working in the field, and suggest that sufferers are mostly malingered or iatrogenic, while giving little or no consideration is given to such variants of other psychiatric conditions? Perhaps the trauma field has been “so often embroiled in serious controversy” (4, p 816) for the same reason Dr McNally and others have trouble imagining the traumatization of a Vietnam War cook or clerk. One theory suggests that there is a conscious decision on the part of some individuals to deny trauma and its impact. Another suggests that some individuals may use dissociation or repression to block from consciousness what is quite obvious to those who listen to real-life patients.'Cameron, C., \u0026 Heber, A. (2006). Re: Troubles in Traumatology, and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory/Reply: Troubles in Traumatology and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory. Canadian journal of psychiatry, 51(6), 402.","author":"Colin Cameron","tags":["denial","dissociation","iatrogenic","malingering","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness-discrimination","ptsd","recovered-memory-therapists","repression","society-denial","trauma-memory","trauma-survivors","traumatized"],"id":29843,"author_id":"Colin+Cameron"},{"text":"... You sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.","author":"Nell Freudenberger","tags":["denial","fear","knowing","repression","society-denial"],"id":52132,"author_id":"Nell+Freudenberger"},{"text":"In his recent guest editorial, Richard McNally voices skepticism about the National Vietnam Veteran’s Readjustment Study (NVVRS) data reporting that over one-half of those who served in the Vietnam War have posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or subclinical PTSD. Dr McNally is particularly skeptical because only 15% of soldiers served in combat units (1). He writes, “the mystery behind the discrepancy in numbers of those with the disease and of those in combat remains unsolved today” (4, p 815). He talks about bizarre facts and implies many, if not most, cases of PTSD are malingered or iatrogenic. Dr McNally ignores the obvious reality that when people are deployed to a war zone, exposure to trauma is not limited to members of combat units (2,3). At the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre of the Canadian Forces in Ottawa, we have assessed over 100 Canadian soldiers, many of whom have never been in combat units, who have experienced a range of horrific traumas and threats in places like Rwanda, Somalia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. We must inform Dr McNally that, in real world practice, even cooks and clerks are affected when faced with death, genocide, ethnic cleansing, bombs, landmines, snipers, and suicide bombers ...One theory suggests that there is a conscious decision on the part of some individuals to deny trauma and its impact. Another suggests that some individuals may use dissociation or repression to block from consciousness what is quite obvious to those who listen to real-life patients.' Cameron, C., \u0026 Heber, A. (2006). Re: Troubles in Traumatology, and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory/Reply: Troubles in Traumatology and Debunking Myths about Trauma and Memory. Canadian journal of psychiatry, 51(6), 402.","author":"Colin Cameron","tags":["combat-ptsd","denial","iatrogenic","malingering","mental-illness-discrimination","mental-illness-stigma","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","society-denial"],"id":75334,"author_id":"Colin+Cameron"},{"text":"You can either follow your dreams or adjust with your society's expectations... Either way, consequences are uncertain... The path to glory or the boulevard of mediocrity, both lead to the grave... Choose what's worthwhile, for the end is the same.","author":"K Hari Kumar","tags":["elegy","identity-crisis","inspirational","inspirational-for-writers","life","motivation","philosophy","quoteoftheday","quotes","society-denial","strangersays","thomas-gray"],"id":116390,"author_id":"K+Hari+Kumar"},{"text":"Ah! Listen the song of storm from my disturbed soul;and it scatters flower buds into its lonely halls;like every pain needs a dirge,with wreaths that awful the world framed one for me,and gives the time it calls.","author":"Nithin Purple","tags":["awful","bitter-thoughts","blood","buds","catter","deathnote","dirge","flower","garland","last-days","lifelost","lonely","nithinpurplequotes","pain","poesy","pounding","quotes","senselessness","society","society-denial","soul","soul-searching-poison","storm","suffering","suicide","suicidial","throbs","time-travel","traveling","venusandcrepuscle","venuslover","visionary","world","wreath"],"id":127381,"author_id":"Nithin+Purple"},{"text":"The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability factors for developing PTSD, at the expense of recognizing the reality of their patients' experiences… This search for predisposing factors probably had its origins in the need to deny that all people can be stressed beyond endurance, rather than in solid scientific data; until recently such data were simply not available… When the issue of causation becomes a legitimate area of investigation, one is inevitably confronted with issues of man's inhumanity to man, with carelessness and callousness, with abrogation of responsibility, with manipulation and with failures to protect.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["avoidance","blame","humanity","inhumane","inhumanity","minimization","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","psychology","psychology","ptsd","responsibility","science","society-denial","suffering","trauma","truth"],"id":127401,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"},{"text":"You see, Risa, survival is a dance between our needs and our consciences. When the need is great enough, and the music loud enough, we can stomp conscience into the ground.'Risa closes her eyes. She knows the dance...'It's the way of the world,' Divan continues. 'Look at unwinding, society's grand gavotte of denial. There will, no doubt, come a time when people look to one another and say, 'My God, what have we done?' But I don't believe it will happen any time soon. Until then, the dance must have music; the chorus must have its voice. Give it that voice, Risa. Play for me.'But Risa's fingers offer him nothing, and the Orgao Organico holds the obdurate, unyielding silence of the grave.","author":"Neal Shusterman","tags":["conscience","evil","idealism","society-denial"],"id":144825,"author_id":"Neal+Shusterman"},{"text":"After accepting the bitter truth of society, I set myself out to lead a life for myself entirely. I realized that the poisonous tentacles of society does not spare anyone, especially people like us. Once I realized that, I became strong from within.","author":"Santosh Avvannavar","tags":["lgbt","society-denial","transgender"],"id":151608,"author_id":"Santosh+Avvannavar"},{"text":"People do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection.","author":"Natascha Kampusch","tags":["believe","court","crime","disbelief","empathy","judgmental","lack-of-empathy","society-denial","survivors","trial","victims"],"id":159221,"author_id":"Natascha+Kampusch"},{"text":"Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["minimization","posttraumatic","ptsd","reality","society","society-denial","trauma","traumatic"],"id":181276,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}