{"quotes":[{"text":"Patients with complex trauma may at times develop extreme reactions to something the therapist has said or not said, done or not done. It is wise to anticipate this in advance, and perhaps to note this anticipation in initial communications with the patient. For example, one may say something like, 'It is likely in our work together, there will be a time or times when you will feel angry with me, disappointed with me, or that I have failed you. We should except this and not be surprised if and when it happens, which it probably will.' It is also vital to emphasize to the patient that despite the diagnosis and experience of dividedness, the whole person is responsible and will be held responsible for the acts of any part. P174.","author":"Elizabeth F. Howell","tags":["complex-ptsd","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-disorder","responsibility","responsible","system-responsibility","trauma-therapy","traumatized"],"id":18581,"author_id":"Elizabeth+F.+Howell"},{"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":"Dr. Peter Levine, who has worked with trauma survivors for twenty-five years, says the single most important factor he has learned in uncovering the mystery of human trauma is what happens during and after the freezing response. He describes an impala being chased by a cheetah. The second the cheetah pounces on the young impala, the animal goes limp. The impala isn’t playing dead, she has “instinctively entered an altered state of consciousness, shared by all mammals when death appears imminent.” (Levine and Frederick, Waking the Tiger, p. 16) The impala becomes instantly immobile. However, if the impala escapes, what she does immediately thereafter is vitally important. She shakes and quivers every part of her body, clearing the traumatic energy she has accumulated.","author":"Marilyn Van Derbur","tags":["fight-flight-freeze","play-dead","survivors","trauma","trauma-experiences","traumatic-experiences","traumatic-stress","traumatized"],"id":31977,"author_id":"Marilyn+Van+Derbur"},{"text":"Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.","author":"Stephanie S. Covington","tags":["judgmental","mental","nonjudgemental","ptsd","trauma","traumatized"],"id":47299,"author_id":"Stephanie+S.+Covington"},{"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":"My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["cannot-talk","combat-ptsd","hero","military","military-ptsd","soldier","traumatized","unspeakable","war","war-hero"],"id":48064,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.","author":"Peter A. Levine","tags":["body","fear","fight-flight","freeze","frozen","frozen-in-time","healing","healing-trauma","memory","mental-health","mental-illness","mind","overwhelmed","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","terror","trauma","traumatized","treatment"],"id":51455,"author_id":"Peter+A.+Levine"},{"text":"Yolanda Gampel utilizes an expanded concept of the 'uncanny' to outline the results of violence: Those who experience such traumas are faced with an unbelievable and unreal reality that is incompatible with anything they knew previously. As a result, they can no longer fully believe what they see with their own eyes; they have difficulty distinguishing between the unreal reality they have survived and the fears that spring from their own imagination.","author":"Nicole Waller","tags":["denial","derealization","disbelief","ptsd","self-doubt","trauma-memories","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","unreal"],"id":63320,"author_id":"Nicole+Waller"},{"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":"Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97).","author":"Bessel A. van der Kolk","tags":["avoidance","body","feelings","numb","numbness","sense-of-safety","trauma","traumatic","traumatized"],"id":95340,"author_id":"Bessel+A.+van+der+Kolk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}