paninid , 2 days ago to histodons group

The word “#trauma” comes from ancient Greek, and until the 19th century it meant a physical injury, a lost limb or damaged body part.

The word earned the definition of “psychic wound” during the #GildedAge and #IndustrialRevolution, as modern society abstracted away labor and suffering via automation and machinery.

It’s never been a disorder.

It’s a symptom of our altered states as we mechanize instruments of production and destruction.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/altered-states-of-learning-to-work-with-machines

#history @histodons

f1337 , 2 months ago to ActuallyAutistic group

Things I learned at “#MentalHealth camp”:

• #Trauma is a wound to the body, mind, & spirit.
• Trauma, while caused by past events, actually lives in the body, in the present.
• Healing from trauma does not require re-experiencing the event. We can heal from trauma that we don’t remember.
• A multimodal approach to trauma recovery is ideal. Not every mode works for every person.
• The behavioral model for mental health is fundamentally broken pseudoscience.

@actuallyautistic