Word: traumas
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...large duck or swan--but the point is, it likes to moralize. And a moralizing turkey is the worst kind. Perhaps these are your own worst fears, fears that you can only face in this particular form--at least they're edible. It's obvious that the family-induced trauma of the Thanksgiving season has gotten to you. Drink lots of beer, engage in anti-family activities and these dreams should go away...
Singer insists that trauma does not cause people to repress memories, although bits and pieces of experience can be lost through amnesia. In fact, she says, trauma has just the opposite effect: people can't forget it. As an example, she cites the cases of Vietnam veterans who suffer flashbacks and posttraumatic stress disorder...
...among the entire U.S. population, only the rare individual has managed to escape childhood sexual abuse. That doesn't seem to surprise therapist E. Sue Blume. In her book Secret Survivors, she writes, "It is not unlikely that more than half of all women are survivors of childhood sexual trauma...
...enforcement authorities report that not one shred of reliable evidence has turned up to support these claims -- no documented marks of torture, no bones of sacrificed adults, infants or fetuses and no reputable eyewitnesses. Lorraine Stanek, a Connecticut rehabilitation counselor for trauma survivors, also stresses the lack of evidence. "If you look at the alleged number of deaths that would be accounted for," she says, "there should be bodies in all our backyards." Still, incest-survivor groups are inundated with these claims. Monarch Resources, a California referral service for survivors, is said to receive more than 5,000 calls annually...
...feeling very hamstrung because they fear any time they ask a question, it can result in a lawsuit." Instead of seeing a patient "as a person in pain and in need of help," Kluft complains, "the therapist is looking at a potential litigant. Some people have discontinued treating trauma patients...