[ SECRET POST #5957 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5957 ⌋

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01. [SPOILERS for Doctor Who, Buffy the vampire slayer]




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02. [WARNING for rape/sexual assault]

[Oz]



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03. [WARNING for body horror]

[Monster Factory]


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04. [WARNING for discussion of pedophilia]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of child abuse]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia]


























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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I believe both are harmful if taken as the norm. This reminds of something I've studied whenever I've written military science fiction, and studied both army field manuals as well as psychology stuff. Learning how are people affected by trauma and war.

Back in the days of the World Wars, PTSD and shell-shock were seen with such derision, people suffering them were unfairly treated as cowards, and we know it's massively fucked up because of not only how horrible war really is, but due to the fact PTSD takes over your body.

Likewise, not every combat veteran gets PTSD, and the assumption that you must be a complete monster and not even a human being if you don't is... likewise, rather troubling. Vietnam vets, traumatized or otherwise, would be derided and oft-seen as murderers. Many factors dictate whenever if you get it or not, not least of all prompt psychiatric help.

Every person is unique in how they react to trauma, short and long-term. One of the schools of psychology, Constructivism, is what focuses on explaining how the mind sorts itself out through many of these events, and it seems to be used in likewise seeing why some people are vulnerable to trauma while others aren't. Dissociation and DID are ways the mind protects itself, to put an example.

That's not to say trauma doesn't affect you. Jesus Christ, it does, and it's much too common for people's lives to spiral if they lack a support network or psychiatric help to treat their conditions. But, as noted, I believe the problem lies whenever trauma is romanticized, either as a martyr complex or as something that you should just 'toughen up for'.

[(Anonymous)]

Every person is unique in how they react to trauma, short and long-term. One of the schools of psychology, Constructivism, is what focuses on explaining how the mind sorts itself out through many of these events, and it seems to be used in likewise seeing why some people are vulnerable to trauma while others aren't. Dissociation and DID are ways the mind protects itself, to put an example.

This 100%. It's incredibly harmful to put forth the idea that there is somehow one correct way to respond to trauma because everyone is different. I have a friend who was raped and who actually had MORE trauma from being told that there was somehow something wrong with her (or that she was making it all up) for not being horribly traumatized by it than she had from the actual rape itself.