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“People subjected to prolonged, repeated trauma develop an insidious, progressive form of post-traumatic stress disorder that invades and erodes the personality. While the victim of a single acute trauma may feel after the event that she is ‘not herself,’ the victim of chronic trauma may feel herself to be changed irrevocably, or she may lose the sense that she has any self at all.”
— Jul 31, 2022 04:00PM
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Michele Rubinstein
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“Guilt may be understood as an attempt to draw some useful lesson from disaster and to regain some self of power and control. To imagine that one could have done better may be more tolerable than to face the reality of utter helplessness.”
— Jul 27, 2022 02:56PM
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“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.”
— Jul 26, 2022 03:14PM
