A case of PTSD here, from the Newspapers, translated…
A short while ago on the news, the star hiphop Japanese singer was physically abused by her father and became autistic”, the twenty-two year-old Vava from the China Has Hip-Hop show, because she’d been able to beat all the other competitors, she was believed to be one of the top contenders of the show, already up for the champion trophies, what the outside world doesn’t know about her was, that she was physically abused by her father when she was younger, raised by her grandparents, and in her childhood years, she’d ended up, closed in, isolated herself from everybody she knew.
There were many cases like this in the psychiatry department, a certain patient, she’s married, with two children, she had a seemingly wonderful marriage and family, but, she said she’d worked really hard, to love her husband as well as her children too, but felt herself, trapped inside an ice cube, lived separately from her loved ones, couldn’t have any sort of depth of emotional attachment with her loved ones, she was in pain, and deeply, depressed.
In the multiple treatment sessions, I’d found, that when she was a young child, she was abused by her stepfather, not only were her younger years plagued by the nightmares, there were multiple instance when she’d harmed herself too. She saw an assortment of doctors, and, in my therapy session with her, I’d realized, that she was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.
After each and every treatment session, three months later, her cutting her own wrists vanished, she can now, function fully at work, but, she’d needed more therapy, as she wanted to really love her family members.
People who were abused as children run a higher risk of developing PTSD. The symptoms are numerous, most of the medical professionals may not note it, the patient may be seeing cardiologists, ENT specialists, neurologists, and vascular physicians as well, they may experience heart palpitations, things stuck in their throats, difficulties swallowing, lack of appetite, sores and aches, digestive disorders, and constipation and diarrhea too.
The hardest for these patients is, seeing one’s own shame from being taken advantage of. It’s hard enough, to cope with the injuries that others had, inflicted on you, a lot of the patients who were traumatized had a hard time, dealing with the shame, they would feel disgust toward themselves when they get angry, upset, or fearful. These patients lacked imagination, and are used to assigning their own traumas to everything around them.
The most important, is that the patients have a difficult time, connecting with the reality, they lived in the shadows of their pasts, at which time, the therapy sessions can help the patients see themselves, to tell themselves, “None of it is your fault!”, then, they will find a way, to get closure, and continue with the rest of their lives.
So, you see, how difficult it is, for a person, to come face to face with the fact of being abused as a young child, and, seeking help is only a first step, to this long hard journey, and even WITH the psychiatrist, therapist’s help, you still need to work hard, to overcome that FUCKED up part of your own separate childhoods, and most of the work needs to be done by you!
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