After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
Arthur GoldenTruth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world. Mrs Winterson objected to what I had put in, but it seemed to me that what I had left out was the story’s silent twin. There are so many things that we can’t say, because they are too painful. We hope that the things we can say will soothe the rest, or appease it in some way. Stories are compensatory. The world is unfair, unjust, unknowable, out of control. When we tell a story we exercise control, but in such a way as to leave a gap, an opening. It is a version, but never the final one. And perhaps we hope that the silences will be heard by someone else, and the story can continue, can be retold. When we write we offer the silence as much as the story. Words are the part of silence that can be spoken. Mrs Winterson would have preferred it if I had been silent.
Do you remember the story of Philomel who is raped and then has her tongue ripped out by the rapist so that she can never tell? I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words. I needed words because unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. He or she has to learn to forgive him or herself.
Stichwörter: truth silence language storytelling narrative trauma
It was only high school after all, definitely one of the most bizarre periods in a person’s life. How anyone can come through that time well adjusted on any level is an absolute miracle.
E.A. BucchianeriStichwörter: life growing-up school miracle survival memories bullying bizarre kids teenagers teens high-school trauma bullies experiences traumatic-experiences high-school-kids high-school-memories i-hate-bullies i-hate-high-school
There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.
Katie McGarryStichwörter: sadness memories depression remember remembering trauma ptsd memory-loss traumatic
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive.
Galen BeckettStichwörter: trauma
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Susan Pease BanittStichwörter: psychology emotions spirituality yoga healing stress mental-health posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma ptsd traumatic-experiences traumatized traumatic-stress post-traumatic-stress-disorder posttraumatic
It's all fun and games until somebody dies.
Tom Hobbs - trauma JunkieStichwörter: trauma ems paramedic
Our favorite film is Vertigo. Amy Eleni and I must watch it seventeen or eighteen times a year, and with each viewing our raptness grows looser and looser; we don't need the visuals anymore--one or the other of us can go into the kitchen halfway through and call out the dialogue while making up two cups of Horlicks. From the minute you see empty, beautiful, blond Madeleine Elster, you know she is doomed because she exists in a way that Scottie, the male lead, just doesn't. You know that Madeleine is in big trouble, because she's a vast wound in a landscape where wounds aren't allowed to stay open--people have to shut up and heal up. She's in trouble because the film works to a plan that makes trauma speak itself out, speak itself to excess until it dies; this film at the peak of its slyness, when people sweat and lick their lips excessively and pound their chests and grab their hair and twist their heads from side to side, performing this unspeakable torment.
Helen OyeyemiStichwörter: wound trauma vertigo
Phrases such as "I'm beside myself," "I was frightened to pieces," "I feel lost," "I feel like part of me is missing," originated from a sense of soul loss.
S. Kelley HarrellStichwörter: shamanism trauma ptsd soul-retrieval soul-loss
Often it isn’t the initiating trauma that creates seemingly insurmountable pain, but the lack of support after.
S. Kelley HarrellStichwörter: healing support survivors shamanism posttraumatic-stress-disorder trauma abuse-survivors ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder
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