Musings of Gnwmythr: Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]

Monday 7 August 2023

Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]

PS - I’ll some additional links from time to time here:

“Why I (As a Therapist) Hate CBT | Therapist Explains Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - YouTube” https://youtu.be/FfT3mzxMGxM?si=gEHJpXhyx39d56lz Brilliant video - I agreed with so much of this! Also, in my experience, I have found the people who advocate for CBT are often out of touch with their emotions, or are even anti-emotions - which puts them at odds with one of the most important parts of living, not to mention one of the best tools for growth, as is well exemplified by the outstanding work of Karla McLaren

I’m not going to go into graphic detail here, but I just want to acknowledge the effects of (me) having experienced a lifetime of traumatic abuse in a wide range of forms (I have not experienced anywhere near all forms of abuse) - including being bullied (especially at school), CSA, transphobia (which, in truth, is really an attempt to kill people whose existence is challenging or discomforting to the bigot), racism (the same comment for transphobia applies here), egotistical refusals to accept new perspectives - especially the reluctance to let go of cherished old but outmoded and/or wrong notions (which I have written about as a fear of griefing - making those people emotionally incompetent and intellectual & emotional cowards ... and the agents of the denialism that is perpetuating inequality, greediness & destruction, and the climate crisis),and the society & soul destroying hate of economic rationalism aka neoliberalism and the resultant fascism.

I have been diagnosed with complex trauma, and life is not always easy.

Today is one of those days I need to decompress and look after myself.

I’ve written about the issue of trauma and related matters previously. See, for instance, just from this year:

Post No. 2,461 - Bigots are emotionally scarred to the point of having scarred interactions with others [Content warning: self harm, the abuses of bigots & flawed parents];
Post No. 2,525 - Internalised misogyny [Content warning: mention of/links to news articles on bigotry & violence including FGM and genocide] - note the Jane Elliott quote;
Post No. 2,523 - Some thoughts on the legal cases against #45, and on countering evil [Content Warning: harm, abuse, power, violence, trauma] - note the included links;
Post No. 2,517 - Some of my current reading by Aboriginal authors and further reflections on my heritage;
Post No. 2,513 - more hate and authoritarian insularity, fear and fascism;
Post No. 2,511 - Immaturity in practicing religion of all forms, and Harpocrates;
Post No. 2,409 - Blows and salves;
Post No. 2,407 - A few rambles: old age and young - has some reflections on being prejudged by others on the basis of the small-minded ways they lived THEIR lives;
Post No. 2,399 - What causes bigotry: carrying forward reactive hate/trauma, and disappointed expectations/inflexibility [Content Warning - note words in title];
Post No. 2,360 - Wrongdoers;

Also, this year from my political blog:

The hypocrisy of those who claim to care for trans kids;
Abuses of power - including avoidance of responsibility/decency - note the mentions of powerlessness, blindness to empathy and inhumanity;
Links for activism;
Hate, hypocrisy and lies in the “no” campaign against the Voice;
Why won’t/don’t people change?;
RoboDebt [Content Warning: human rights abuses, abuses of power, anger, and the need to make moral choices and not be amathiac);
The callousness of some cisgender people - and the irresponsibility of some local Council staff, and the lying, hypocritical cowardice of some corporations;
From this week’s coming news post: “racial battle fatigue”;
It is IMPOSSIBLE to be professional while one has unconscious bias;
On patriarchy - including its equality-phobic victim-collaborators;
A challenge to industrialised/neoliberal/"western" societies: stop scarring everybody and dooming them to failure/destruction;
More on the US and UK transgenocide;
The COWARDICE of thoughtless authoritarian thugs;
The origins of patriarchy (from the BBC);
Victoria Police apologise for past and present racism, indicate openness to independent oversight "if asked";
A defence and a challenge [Content Warning: discrimination, violence, sexual assault, self harm];
Vindication of my opinion that we are in a transgenocide, and a deep backgrounder on the anti-trans movement;
Patterns [Content Warning: misogyny, white supremacism, CSA, transhate];
Emotional competence and incompetence, work, and life;
The enabling and consequences of hate and amathia - including fascism and even more extreme right wing extremism [Content Warning - anger at violent bigotry];
The state of the world is amathia [Content Warning: suffering, violence];
At the convenience of racists;
A transgenocide [Note: Content Warning] is underway;
What is WRONG with people - especially US police? CW: Tyre Nichols and police violence - note the link to an article I wrote last year;
What to do about the 1% of the 1% [Note: Content Warning - climate crisis, elitism and social division, evil];
How can they sleep at night?;

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Monday 7 August 2023

Post No. 2,535 - Trauma [Content Warning: bigotry/discrimination and other forms of abuse, violence, sexual violence, CSA, self harm]