ريهام يوسف’s Reviews > The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma > Status Update

"The most natural way for human beings to calm themselves when they are
upset is by clinging to another person. This means that patients who have been physically or sexually violated face a dilemma: They desperately crave touch while simultaneously being terrified of body contact."

"Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say. He often said that people can never get better without knowing what they know and feeling what they feel."

معرفش ليه بس في اللحظة دي قررت اشوف عن حرب فيتنام وشاهدت حلقتي الدحيح _والي ارشحها جدا_ عن حرب فيتنام, ويعني سبحان الله ممكن نغير اسامي دول ومدن وتفضل القصة هى هى ويفضل الجاني هو هو

"We want to think of families as safe havens. We prefer to believe that cruelty occurs only in faraway places like Darfur or the Congo. It is hard enough for observers to bear witness to pain. Is it any wonder, then, that the traumatized individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and that they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?"

Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.
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