Sounds those researching it are new to that topic.
:roflmao: No lie.
I have to wonder, too, how much of the observed resilience is mislabeled zero-trust. So much dissatisfaction and distress seems to come from “Why wont people help me???”. Constantly blows my mind that people still have so much trust in people/systems that they’re upset they’re not being helped, rather than it never even occurring to them that people “should” (much less that it should look like “this”). IDK. It’s just impressive to me. Confusing, but impressive.
Maybe I’m a little confused, and I definitely don’t want to come across as rude or minimizing. But I feel like this article is more stating the obvious than anything. I’ve figured it’s pretty plain to see this how PTSD works in a lot of people, not just torture survivors.
The article isn’t actually talking about PTSD, but effects of a specific trauma. Whether someone has PTSD or not there are common byproducts of certain traumas. Torture side effects, in the West, aren’t very well understood. Child abuse, domestic violence, & sexual assault are far more common here, far more studied, and therefore far better understood. The article is from a seminar attempting to describe to psych professionals why torture survivors do the normal things they do. Like presenting very well, despite being in worse physical/mental condition to people with other traumas, who are presenting far worse.
It’s pretty classic for torture survivors to be all “I’m doing GREAT, life is goooood, people are awesome” even when their lives are a complete clusterf*ck (it’s the comparative) ... meanwhile a lot of other traumas are the inverse; their life is pretty sweet and they’re miserable, exploding at the seams, misanthropic, etc. <<< People who aren’t familiar with torture expect people to be doing
that, instead -essentially- spinning around in a circle with a smile on their face. >>> It’s very similar to how rape victims tend to split into 2 groups; sexually anorexic and sexually promiscuous. Before the effects of rape were well understood people
expected all “real” rape victims to be sexually anorexic. So roughly half of all rape survivors were either blown off (you clearly have no problems with being raped), or blamed for their rape, given their behavior now. As opposed to the promiscuity understood
as an effect of being raped, and them being just as profoundly affected as people who split the other way.
Knowing that torture survivors present really well? And very differently from most other traumas? Is a hugely useful clinical tool.
