As a result of physical abuse, a child tends to become fearful of both the person and the context in which the abuse occurred. Over time, the cues to context can become generalized, and the fear response can be activated by people and places bearing only a small resemblance to the original context of the maltreatment.

– Scott Barry Kaufman

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves. (p.97)

– Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

– Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works. People believe what they’ve seen happen exponentially more than what they read about has happened to other people, if they read about other people at all. We’re all biased to our own personal history. – https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/ideas-that-changed-my-life/

greed that isn't a selfish greed as much as it's a scared animal trying to be important when it bought a narrative that it's this shrimpy little sack of skin. so its already trapped in a trivialized sense of self.

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You cannot separate politics from medicine

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale

Traumacene vs Noonsphere vs Anthropocene

The term ‘Anthropocene’ accomplishes another task worthy of note. It hides the fact that not all human beings, living or dead, contributed to the aforementioned destruction equally. Some, including those who coined the term in the first place, live within a cultural body that contributed far more than others, and continues to do so. Another more practical shortcoming is that it focuses our attention on the symptoms of our traumatized cultural body rather than their root cause, and provides no path forwards besides one leading to the despair and self-loathing I noted earlier.

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