After Trauma

Learning to be ok with being misunderstood and disliked is key

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.” ― Nathaniel Lee, ca. 1684

@NickTaber So true, the inconvenient truth doesn't get views

@aftertraumaco thought you might appreciate

Notice how there’s societally approved trauma healing work…and then there’s the unauthorized version. Safe trauma talk: “I have anxious attachment because my parents had unhealed wounds, but I'm doing breathwork and setting boundaries.” This keeps the system intact and makes you a consumer of wellness products. The unauthorized version: “My family crushed my boundaries, punished by sovereignty, forced me to betray my own instincts to survive, then the mental health system handed me a diagnostic label to make sure I blamed my own brain instead of the environment that broke me." The first one gets views on Instagram, likely keeps you mostly dissociated, disempowered, and dependent. The second one gets a different reaction because it’s closer to the truth most of us are actually facing.

“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”

"Many problematic microbes colonize in ways that underscore and support neural pathways of trauma. You might say the bugs hold the consciousness and thus can make us live in the trauma." beyondmeds.com/2017/05/01/gut…

The primary purpose of mental health diagnoses is to exonerate victimizers and stigmatize victims.

Moses Maimonides (ca. 1175), rabbi of Cairo, wrote that “the true purpose of circumcision was to give the sexual organ that kind of physical pain as… to lessen the power of passion.”

Why Can’t You Grieve? — A Psychological Analysis and Some Tools to Promote Grieving youtu.be/CfOIr7hSdPc

Decline of professional sports is a sign that humanity is healing. They exploit the "kill-or-be-killed" trauma imprinted on everyone over the last 6,000 years. Then connect it to statism, commercialism, etc. It's not "human nature." You can see even the players and fans are miserable as they keep up the charade.

I can’t speak from experience because I’m not a parent. But I was a child born into and raised with compliance to some of the devilish birth and early childhood practices foisted on the last few generations. I suspect parenting is widely considered “extremely hard” now because of all the many things hospital births do to injure babies, disrupt the first critical hours of bonding and attachment between baby and mother, and distort the biochemical and hormonal processes that allow childbirth to form Nature’s intended bonds/safety/protection/immunity (via epidurals, labor induction, other drugs, disrupted skin to skin contact, etc). And on top of it all, vaccine injury for most babies and surgical injury/sexual abuse for many boys. Then there’s the “sleep training” which develops attachment problems, profound early trauma and repeated experiences of fear and abandonment. If babies and parents were allowed to birth and raise children the way our dogs and cats do, children would develop strong nervous systems, emotional resilience, and natural immunity to keep them healthy, grounded, stable, and in a state of trust and peace. The trust they should have in their parents to love and protect them, instead, is broken many times over from day 1 when parents follow doctors’ many injurious recommendations. I think babies who scream incessantly for years are injured. I think babies who regularly can’t be easily settled and comforted are injured. Children with behavioral problems that can’t be resolved with good parenting are probably injured. Hospital births, vaccinations, and sleep training injure them from day 1. The parents who should have protected them from harm have already failed and proved to the child they aren’t in a safe place. I think babies sense this. I suspect raising children is far easier when parents say NO to doctors and give birth instead the way we allow animals to do. At home, with no medical interventions, with no pulling the baby away from the mother, no injections or surgeries, allowing the baby to stay with the parents full-time until they’re not a totally helpless dependent little thing who would die soon if abandoned. I’ve seen a lot of reports from parents who had both vaccinated and completely unvaccinated children that suggest even just eliminating vaccinations has a HUGE impact on how “difficult” their child was. Take all that with a grain of salt, because I don’t have experience in this. Just an observer. This is my hunch.

@Basedertarian Very common across the world. A feature of statism.

Imagine showing this to someone in 2012

@Natism It does contain a ball inside

Did you know? The word "avocado" comes from the Aztec word ahuacatl, which literally means "testicle."

@allie__voss Your second point is on point

This woman's content is fantastic, btw, and she's right on this Also I think some parents like their child being weird and socially isolated because they don't want their child to leave them for other friends/social circles

"So long as our families, hospitals, schools and work-places are predominantly factories for the production of highly armored, sex-frustrated and angry people, the next generations will be just as damaged as the last, and those who give or undertake emotionally-transforming therapy will, in old age, be confronted with a world just as sick, or worse than what existed in their youth."

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@voidwithverses Goals

“He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.” — Plato

@ZyMazza The children yearn for SWE roles in air conditioned offices

Now that we live in a service-based economy, the prohibition on child labor is silly There are 12 year old kids who could be pulling in 90k/yr as SWEs in air conditioned offices but you would pearl-clutch and call them exploited insisting they need to be in school instead

The DSM, Big Psych, neurodiversity, neurodivergence are massive psyops. I suggest discarding them and their language entirely and creating your own or borrowing from wiser, better sources.

@christian_shiba Not bad inherently but probably both have similar levels of (internalized) misogyny

I think both of these are bad actually.