Thank you so much for this Darcia! I especially appreciate the references and subject bibliography. The idea of using a substack to communicate the wisdom of a lifetime of scholarship is worthy of emulation.
I’ve started to keep an outdoor interaction and observation journal. It is interesting as I have continued to engage with nature how I have discovered how much I love being near trees. I literally stand under these mama trees on my walks and stare up into their canopies. I find myself mentally talking to them. Lol. My Westernized mind thinks I am bat shit crazy. I am learning to shrug it off but didn’t realize how hard that would be. I mean, in private spaces I talk to my plants so you know, lol. Thank you for this wonderful article.
fracturing is a way of creating trauma bonding -- spiraling levels of intensity , be they connection or disconnection motivated , create a release of oxytocin , which creates a wave of amnesia . It does not "make you high " it makes you forget and return to base level unity . All is one , in the very beginning . This is why Stockholm Syndrome happens , the kidnapper maintains the intensity , and ultimately the captive relates to the kidnapper as an infant would to its mother . This is also , very simply , what happens inside of abusive domestic relationships . Understanding oxytocin , and the need to maintain historical records of truth to refer to when you may have experienced an amnesia washing -- as well as comprehending the process by which we build healthy and sane families and communities , as well as destroy sanity and create bot pods ( robotic clusters of non - mindful human hamsters ) -- Thank you for writing this excellent article , now what to do about the situation ?
Oh wow. I didn’t know this. I have PTSD. I started to notice after I had a bad interaction with one of my abusers (who I have to live with) I would start to check out and literally, a wave of forgetting would start to happen. I actually had a hard time fighting it. I would have to keep saying, no, no this just happened. I started noticing how I quickly couldn't remember what had just happened 10 minutes ago but I was still somatically present and physically anxious and scared. The safety rationalizations would start as that flow happened as I started to gaslight myself. I fought this for months trying to get a hold of what was still happening. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much for this Darcia! I especially appreciate the references and subject bibliography. The idea of using a substack to communicate the wisdom of a lifetime of scholarship is worthy of emulation.
I’ve started to keep an outdoor interaction and observation journal. It is interesting as I have continued to engage with nature how I have discovered how much I love being near trees. I literally stand under these mama trees on my walks and stare up into their canopies. I find myself mentally talking to them. Lol. My Westernized mind thinks I am bat shit crazy. I am learning to shrug it off but didn’t realize how hard that would be. I mean, in private spaces I talk to my plants so you know, lol. Thank you for this wonderful article.
fracturing is a way of creating trauma bonding -- spiraling levels of intensity , be they connection or disconnection motivated , create a release of oxytocin , which creates a wave of amnesia . It does not "make you high " it makes you forget and return to base level unity . All is one , in the very beginning . This is why Stockholm Syndrome happens , the kidnapper maintains the intensity , and ultimately the captive relates to the kidnapper as an infant would to its mother . This is also , very simply , what happens inside of abusive domestic relationships . Understanding oxytocin , and the need to maintain historical records of truth to refer to when you may have experienced an amnesia washing -- as well as comprehending the process by which we build healthy and sane families and communities , as well as destroy sanity and create bot pods ( robotic clusters of non - mindful human hamsters ) -- Thank you for writing this excellent article , now what to do about the situation ?
Oh wow. I didn’t know this. I have PTSD. I started to notice after I had a bad interaction with one of my abusers (who I have to live with) I would start to check out and literally, a wave of forgetting would start to happen. I actually had a hard time fighting it. I would have to keep saying, no, no this just happened. I started noticing how I quickly couldn't remember what had just happened 10 minutes ago but I was still somatically present and physically anxious and scared. The safety rationalizations would start as that flow happened as I started to gaslight myself. I fought this for months trying to get a hold of what was still happening. Thank you for sharing this!