trauma
At its core, trauma can be thought of as the psychological wounds that persist, even when the physical ones are long gone.
They Called It Discipline — I Called It Survival
I fall from the sky every night. In my dreams, I am always somewhere high — a rooftop, a cliff, a place with no name — and then I drop. Fast. Completely. The ground rushes up and I wake up just before impact, heart pounding, hands gripping the sheets, body convinced it just survived something real.
By saif ullah5 months ago in Psyche
I Thought It Was Me
For a long time I thought something was wrong with me. It wasn’t some big thing I could just describe to anyone. It sat there in the background, with this ongoing feeling like I didn’t have what other people seemed to carry around so easily. I figured maybe I came off as too sensitive, hard to deal with. Or that I wanted more from situations than made sense and maybe that I fell short in spots I couldn’t see but everyone else picked up on right away.
By Annam M Gordon5 months ago in Psyche
With God as My Witness, I Learned to Trust My Body
I write this as a witness to a pattern that is often denied because it is uncomfortable to name. Many survivors of childhood and adult abuse describe a similar mechanism: their internal signals of danger are consistently invalidated by authority figures who use love, fear, and confusion in cycles.
By THE HONED CRONE5 months ago in Psyche
THE SECRET OF DREAM - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
The Dream is not an object to be decoded, nor a message patiently awaiting the appropriate interpreter to reveal its content. The dream occurs prior to every distinction between subject and object, between reality and imagination, between meaning and absurdity. The interpretation of the dream can reach only a certain limit, and this limit is neither technical nor epistemological; it is ontological. What is at stake is not the inadequacy of a method, but the inability of any form of thought to fully grasp that which emerges from the unnameable depths of existence. The dream is the trace of a region where language has not yet solidified into concepts, where being has not yet crystallized into forms.
By alexis karpouzos5 months ago in Psyche
