The Reality of Stress Disorders
Published by Frank Josey at Smashwords
Copyright 2011 Frank Josey
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Introduction
Whether it is war, abuse, or an accident, these traumatic events create lingering emotions that, for the most part, can be coped with normally.
But if the trauma is severe, fear turns to terror, anger to rage, disillusionment to despair, sadness to profound grief, to name just four. If the effects of the distressing experience go untreated, these emotions are too strong for normal coping mechanisms. Inappropriate behaviors emerge, without the victim knowing why. Relationships are destroyed; self hate deepens. Society accepts no excuses.
Right now you could be sitting in a cell; homeless in a park, seated alone at a tavern, playing a one armed bandit, injecting shit in your veins, eating uncontrollably, or other sorrowful conditions. Society not only does not care; few understand why you’re slowly killing yourself. You are alone.
Seven stanzas represent a severe emotion that dominates for a time. The eighth a glimmer of hope, the ninth, after a mental health professional has intervened
If you have been brutally abused, you get an extra – a malevolent gift called “the critical parent”. A trinity of chaos unfolds with a non-functioning adult, a traumatized child that controls the victim’s behavior, and the critical parent who influences the child. Our legal system refuses to recognize this.