Posted by floatingbridge on April 25, 2011, at 22:08:04
In reply to Re: hp + all here, questions re: SP, posted by hyperfocus on April 25, 2011, at 21:10:31
hp, this is interesting. In theory, just the existential shock of realizing one's separateness, visibility, and vulnerability could be a trauma of it's own that some people spend lives managing. They may have had gentle enough lives, loving, good enough parents who kept them safe from bullying or sexual, physical, or other abuse.
But fear itself is traumatic. And not
many people experience such
vulnerability as you outlined so well. They may read about it, intellectually grasp it, but, now speaking for myself, finding myself alone in the immensity of the world was a horror apart from the abuse and predations experienced and witnessed.I may very well have discovered this indifference of the world that Camus' stranger found 'gentle' even within an healthy family. People could have spoken to me about it, been kind, (but weren't); my point is, how would I have carried forward the knowledge of my discovery, even given optimal circumstances? Or are these thoughts only realized by the downtrodden? That ignorance is a luxury I would give a great deal for.
Hey. Someone reccommend a therapist's works to me. Have you heard of someone like Belle Ruth Naparstek? Google her name +ptsd. I haven't had a chance to explore it yet. Do you know her work?
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