{"quotes":[{"text":"Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["amnesia","catastrophe","combat","complex-trauma","concentration-camp-survivor","concentration-camps","consciousness","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","memory","political-prisoners","psychology","soldiers","survivor","torture","trauma","trauma-survivors"],"id":2764,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"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":"When preparing for Book One, I talked to a couple of psychiatrists about psychosomatic phenomena, neuroses and dissociative conditions, for example the so—called hysterical blindness suffered by many who saw the Killing Fields in Pol Pot’s Cambodia: their eyes objectively see, but they are not aware of it and are blind because they believe they can’t see. One specialist told me that among modern Western people, ’metaphorical’ symptoms such as Fredy or those Cambodians evince are much rarer now than earlier in the twentieth century or before. Nowadays most people are better equipped by education to verbalise their neuroses, and have lots of jargon in which to do so. For most of the dissociative dimension, I could draw on things I knew from within myself.","author":"Les Murray","tags":["blindness","conversion-disorder","dissociation","dissociative","hysteria","hysterical-dissociation","mental-disorder","mental-illness","neuoroses","neurosis","neuroticism","pol-pot","psychogenic","psychosomatic","trauma","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":92364,"author_id":"Les+Murray"},{"text":"Traumatic events challenge an individual's view of the world as a just, safe and predictable place. Traumas that are caused by human behavior. . . Commonly have more psychological impact than those caused by nature.","author":"American Psychological Association","tags":["cognitive-distortions","just-world","psychological-trauma","ptsd","sense-of-safety","trauma","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","world-view"],"id":290052,"author_id":"American+Psychological+Association"},{"text":"Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from now to then to back again. ... In the traumatic universe the basic laws of matter are suspended: ceiling fans can be helicopters, car exhaust can be mustard gas.","author":"David J. Morris","tags":["combat-ptsd","flashbacks","mental-disorder","mental-distress","mental-illness","military-psychiatry","military","post-traumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","time","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized","veterans"],"id":416326,"author_id":"David+J.+Morris"},{"text":"TRAUMA STEALS YOUR VOICE People get so tired of asking you what's wrong and you've run out of nothings to tell them. You've tried and they've tried, but the words just turn to ashes every time they try to leave your mouth. They start as fire in the pit of your stomach, but come out in a puff of smoke. You are not you anymore. And you don't know how to fix this. The worst part is...You don't even know how to try.","author":"nikitta gill","tags":["posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","survivors","trauma","trauma-survivors","traumatized","voiceless"],"id":435523,"author_id":"nikitta+gill"},{"text":"They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay.","author":"Dalton Trumbo","tags":["coping-mechanism","denial","denial-of-reality","psychological-defense","survivor-guilt","trauma-survivors","traumatic-experiences"],"id":472825,"author_id":"Dalton+Trumbo"},{"text":"“So how’d you do it? How did you get to where you aren’t scared all the freaking time?”Erin’s smile drooped a little, tired with the effort. “You’re making an assumption,” she said. “Just hang in there. It’ll get easier.” “But not better,” Alexander said. “But not better.","author":"Daniel Abraham","tags":["ptsd","ptsd-recovery","trauma","trauma-survivors"],"id":473775,"author_id":"Daniel+Abraham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}