Post by the Sarcastic Autist on Oct 1, 2018 22:49:58 GMT
1)Abram Kardiner stated “the nucleus of the neurosis is a physioneurosis”, meaning that post traumatic stress is a physical problem as much as a mental one. van der Kolk later asks the rhetorical “is it any wonder, then, that the traumatic individuals themselves cannot tolerate remembering it and they often resort to using drugs, alcohol, or self-mutilation to block out their unbearable knowledge?” Do you believe that traumatized people engage in self-injurous and self-destructive behaviour as a sort of physical feedback to their volatile emotional state that allows them to ineffectively regain some modicum of illusory self-control and self-regulation? Why or why not?
2)van der Kolk says “it takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember” and that “ one of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame…” Discuss ways you can cultivate trust, courage, and compassion for yourself.
3)Tom was an avid avoider. In what ways can you relate to that?
4)Do you agree with the phrase ‘suffering from memories’ as it relates to trauma? Why or why not?
5)van der Kolk states “Traumatized people have a tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them”. He later goes into how imagination is negatively affected by trauma. How are those two related for you?
6)“People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it”. Discuss why this is a false dichotomy.
7)“For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present”. Discuss how this relates to mindfulness.
2)van der Kolk says “it takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember” and that “ one of the hardest things for traumatized people is to confront their shame…” Discuss ways you can cultivate trust, courage, and compassion for yourself.
3)Tom was an avid avoider. In what ways can you relate to that?
4)Do you agree with the phrase ‘suffering from memories’ as it relates to trauma? Why or why not?
5)van der Kolk states “Traumatized people have a tendency to superimpose their trauma on everything around them and have trouble deciphering whatever is going on around them”. He later goes into how imagination is negatively affected by trauma. How are those two related for you?
6)“People who have not shared the traumatic experience cannot be trusted, because they can’t understand it”. Discuss why this is a false dichotomy.
7)“For real change to take place, the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present”. Discuss how this relates to mindfulness.