The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable and unbearable

Artists & Writers in Their Own Words: Jari Österberg AKA Liuos snow peaceful gif

Who can find a proper grave for such damaged mosaics of the mind, where they may rest in peices. Life goes on but in two different temporal directions at once. The future unable to escape the grip of a memory laden with grief.

The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable and unbearable. Each patient demands that we suspend our sense of what is normal and accept that we are dealing with a dual reality. The reality of a relatively secure and predictable present that lives side-by-side with a ruinous, ever-present past.

‘The Body Keeps the Score’, Bessel Van Der Kolk

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