We are peculiarly vulnerable to the dissociation of trauma

We are peculiarly vulnerable to the dissociation of trauma, especially when young – the blind-terror of childhood is induced which turns thought off. Thought ceases. Our mind is ‘ill’. It pays the child not to know what is happening, or who is doing what, to him or her. This is variously described as ‘denial’, dissociation, projection, repression – what have you – the upshot is that our child daren’t look, so cannot see. Repeat, DAREN’T LOOK, SO CANNOT SEE. Our child works on the perception that “full thoughts or visualisations of these events are TERMINAL”. And once our child stops seeing,shuts emotionally down,... and this can happen quite suddenly especially pre-verbally, then they are thereafter incapable of telling whether or not the trauma has stopped. “This isn’t happening to me” leads inexorably to the inability to say or think or believe that “this has stopped happening to me” – or even very clearly what “this” is.

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