America’s trauma epidemic w/Dr. Judith Herman | The Chris Hedges Report

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1. The Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of America just moved their International headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Columbus ohio. Just 2 miles from our homes. And the new president of The Ohio State University is a former Aviation/Navy high ranking military officer associated with Denver, Colorado.

2. This is what is happening to me here in Ohio via hospital kidnapping and abusive use of the growing misuse of the Ohio Civil Commitment laws and yes, yes yes the trauma of ongoing wars. Wars of trauma. Ohio and America MUST unite against wars and trauma.

3. I'm so glad she brought up the privledge of siding with the ruling elite as a way they mold people into being perpatrators of violence. That's such an important concept for people to understand. Especially when we make money our God, too few people are willing to walk away from it even to save their soul.

4. Thanks Chris! Don't know why I didn't hear of Judith Herman before now!

5. I find it fascinating that it was easier to imagine that abused women were fantasizing about & desiring abuse than: that they were actually abused. How many were further tortured through misdiagnosis and how many false tropes have been developed about what "women really/secretly" want?!

6. There's a myth (especially common among conservatives but not exclusive to them) that adverse experiences in childhood make a person stronger, when the opposite is true.
   The myth persists because it is perpetuated by the victims and perpetrators

7. 1 in a million. Lol. 1 out of 3. Maybe more.

8. 6:30 frued was a fraud he got everything that was positive from Carl Jung… Watch the Hollywood movie "A Dangerous Method" it was Jung and Wilhelm Reich that developed those methods of dealing with childhood trauma in adult patients… All the way up to sleeping with the patient as part of the therapy… The last part wasn't uncommon for European psychology healers to do… But Jung and Reich got results because Jung and Reich understood the most about the unconscious levels of development… Frued was essentially a sociopath and his daughter Ana a psychopath and Freud's nephew, Alfred Bernays was also quite sociopathic and he is responsible for introducing the current methods of mind control advertising that the big corporations have used on us in our society today… The frueds and Bernays thought we were supposed to be "happiness machines" … Like happiness is the ultimate goal of life… What a big fat joke

9. No wonder the US is ALWAYS at war!!!!
   A deeply deeply violent nation.

10. In my experience survivors are attacked and asked defensive questions that imply they were asking for it. Sometimes being yelled at by the same people who are supposed to help.

    And everything is all in your head and psychosomatic. Which is why you don’t need to get the physical your insurance is being charged for.

    Systematic discrimination means the idea of depending on the external validation from the same people who are abusing you.

    The fact these biases are so prevalent based off of the black experience, the history of this country experimenting on black woman (and their citizens in general with agent orange), and according to studies 60% of doctors still think woman can (should) experience more pain.

    Your advice ignores this reality and how it effects your ability to get help from people who get upset when you try to file a police report but seem triggered, become physically and verbally aggressive. Even when it comes to alerting tenants about the 2nd fire in the building in 4 years.

    That seems more like a bias FOR the landlord. In addition to racism, sexism, and the encouragement of fighting and breaking the laws in other self-destructive manners.

    The GET HELP approach assumes that the trauma you’re talking about is just about childhood trauma that exists in a vacuum. And the only problem is how trauma victims communicate.

    I have TOO many recordings proving it isn’t. The law just doesn’t matter to the people who are supposed to uphold it. The health professionals I’ve gone to made me feel like I wasn’t a person and couldn’t talk about it even though they were asking about it.
    Having to explain that just because my last name is SMITH doesn’t mean I’m Irish to a therapist who refused to listen even after I brought up the whole slavery thing and how my lady name had nothing to do with my heritage is a great example. This doctor was supposed help me file for disability so I could address my problems in a safe place.

    That was 20 years ago. I ended up working while sick until I got sicker. Now that I stopped work 6 years ago and have been trying to focus on getting help, I’m worse off health-wise from all the “HELP” from abusive people in positions of power who have done things to me I’m going to have to deal with the rest of my life. Including knowing that like the super to my building said. “I can do whatever the F I want to you because no one gives a damn about you”.

    In the end, I’m still writing and I’ve started to make art to cope with the ongoing trauma while I try to focus on ways of improving my situation that DON’T include depending on the inhumane tyrants that seem to get sadistic pleasure from causing me pain.

    Please make sure your advice doesn’t exclude the toxic society that perpetuates these traumas. Or treats trauma like a childhood phenomenon. That’s the same techniques that’s besides to deny me help. It puts the burden on the survivor assuming that they never tried to get help or haven’t tried hard enough. It also takes it away attention from the PRESENT traumatic circumstances and the aggressor.

11. The child sex abuse in religious communities is only getting worse – just in the last 2 years we had the white evangelicals in SBC mega churches caught hiding 700 pastor predators

    Catholic Churches in Illinois caught w thousands of victims

    Maryland 100’s of victims

    Mormon church caught hiding massive sexual abuse

    Not to mention the daily arrest of a policeman politician or pulpit/pew pedo who always have trump in profile

12. Wait this nation was built on a foundation of Trauma, start looking at the real source of trauma, genocide and slavery. It traumatized the enslaver and enslaved. What was the source of the sickness that a dehumanized society which created slavery here in America.

13. Do you know how many housewives and former housewives children have post traumatic stress disorder because of the bullying the lawyers put the women and children through not giving the moms enough support to take care of the children and wrecking, lifelong, familiar, familiar bonds because the dad might’ve had enough an emotional affair, or an affair, or just been wildly addicted to pornography and the kind of violent rhetoric they can go along with that

14. When the system is broken, is broken on so many levels, and everyone just says it’s up to the judiciary, and the judiciary was chosen by and stacked five Republican Christian white men who believe in white supremacist dogma still that’s who they were raised by

15. Someone should write a book and title it what white people still haven’t learned from Black people. We should have a thing called dissertation requests of books that yet need to be written requested by all manner of people even if it’s just a compilation, that’s new in fresh of old text and call like curated portions of works like the kind of things that college professors put together

16. Supreme Farce

17. I find music that toy hes on trauma such as Same Stone by John Prine, Sunday Morning Comin Down by Kristofferson,
    many of Johnny Cadh and Waylon Jennings songs helpful.
    We dont have or i've not heard any current musicians like them.

18. This has just become my favorite place. Thank you Chris and your team.

19. One has to wonder about similarities with the forms of Alzheimer's disease. Is it spreading with the spread of abuse in society, and people are having memory issues because of the cumulative past trauma in their lives?

20. It’s amazing that she said trying to heal yourself will cause re-traumitization after talking about Fred’s sexist non-scientific conclusions.

    Never mind that this same attitude towards woman are STILL PREVALENT. Especially with non-white patients. Even a scan of a collapsed lung doesn’t guarantee admission to a hospital much less skilled care.

    What do you do when the professionals your Medicaid allows you to see are intent on NEVER seeing any problems despite all the undeniable proof and have the same sexist (it’s all in your head never mind the endless proof) attitude.

    If I didn’t help myself with writing, art, and coming across videos like this that confirm that shouldn’t keep my abuse secret, I’m not sure where I’d be.

    Telling people not to try to heal themselves is like telling people to not defend themselves without a lawyer. It makes the assumption that everyone has access to these things and that anyone with these titles are going to be good at their job.

    Besides you forgot the part of therapy that includes exposing yourself to more pleasant experiences. You don’t need a therapist to give you permission to add more joy to your life.

    These are the type of skills we could all use.

    Help is good, depending on others to do ANYTHING AT ALL, is co-dependency. Especially if it means using that as an excuse to do nothing at all. Which brings us full circle back to the beginning of the video. That’s just an excuse to double down on the apathy.

    Take in mind anyone in an ongoing trauma needs to be able to discern the helpful people in the toxic environment they are in to avoid continuing the cycle of abuse. That’s more reason to try to focus on what they can do themselves. Like writing a list of the minimal qualities they are looking for in a support system. Goals are helpful too. Even if it’s just the opposite of the things they don’t want.

    Otherwise they will be doomed to being strung along by people who may be well intentioned and even educated but clueless.

    The tips I’ve gotten from actual survivors with NO education just experience has helped the most.

    They encourage writing about life experiences and having hobbies. Increasing the pleasure in my life. Things that are missed by most professionals. Sometimes even discouraged…

    However it seems like the people who these things occur to whether they’ve been abused or not, are the healthiest. Plus they seem to be aware of the obvious. Not only can’t you depend on a therapist or drugs to cope with life, you shouldn’t try to. Mmsime have seen therapist and got some of these tips from them. Most haven’t. None see therapist past 7 years. And most importantly no matter what journey they took you can see the results of a well-adjusted happy human.

    I’m going to take the information that confirms the things I’m doing on my own are correct. Leave the co-defendant parts that have me continuing to go to racist, sexist, Freud types ( who try to convince a black woman she’s Irish because her last name is Smith and force me to explain slavery and discourage me from talking about my problem in therapy even though they asked and treat me like I have hysteria and it’s the 1850s) hoping for different results, alone.

    Please rethink your advice which doesn’t consider most people even those who are white but are apart of the working poor and can’t afford care or whose insurance limits their mental health benefits despite the laws against that. They also have a good chance of having their symptoms dismissed and suffering from medical trauma. If for no other reason because we are in the midst of a healthcare crisis that started long before Covid and is worse now.

21. Systemic narcissistic abuse in today's world is for sure far more common than a lot of us are willing to admit when wanting to believe in our own personal safety and when wanting to believe in our own ability to navigate around any known existing risks in a so called more developed nation. Perhaps one reason that is true is because the history of the main excuse(s) being offered as to the causes of that trauma started so long ago while people have become so much more complacent about the same only because people are finally starting to live longer again. Like when reading someone's adacemic journal written in wording that was willfully designed to be making a name for themselves alone through attemtped people pleasing of their at the time peers. Or when battered women are constant being put in double dilemmas while being false accused by more than one person who is in cahoots with the perpetrator. Or when battered children are often being told by not only a troubled parent or parents who are being told too that they are permanent defective in some way. The perpetrator who is often only existing in a hierarchy of perpetrators. Of course we cannot face those facts alone. However who in our secular post modernistic world now is willing or able to admit where the best place is to get help when being able to face those truths? Our post modernistic secular world which is for example tryrannical in how it defines gender roles and in how it defines proper public discourse. Like in how it forbids anyone female to speak about their faith anywhere. Not only during bible studies in church buildings. Including in places of higher education while participating in a freshman course called philosophy and/or during a freshmen course in theology too. Believe it or not women freshmen who are from a different faith background than the lecturere is or who can speak in more than official languages who do not remain silent during question period or who are singled out to demonstrate in public they have understood the lecture properly in those kind of theology classes sometimes later get false accused of being possessed by a demon.

22. No where to turn .. Grandma gone

23. Grandma come back and get me😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

24. America is founded upon trauma based mind control.

25. I love this man!

26. Great topic! Gabor Mate interview is great too

27. Can anyone tell me the name or band in the introduction ??? Thanks

28. Chris Hedges is an asset for the United States.

29. So glad that we are finally healing trauma and PTSD. It took hundreds of years to actually discover that you can change the memory and remove the traumatic experience from the memory. How great it is to heal PTSD in 6 sessions with zero relapse.

30. The SCOTUS "ayatollahs" is the best and most succinct description of the SCOTUS 'justices' that I've ever heard.

31. That any of us think it's all right to use others for personal gain at their expense his a problem… As my past teachers have said in the past, it's getting you used to the workplace!!

32. This country doesn't give a damn about the expendable, easily abusable, exploitable, and profitable vulnerable populations, what colonialism was founded on. A country or system is no better than how it protects its most vulnerable citizens.. It's far more expensive to allow exploitation of vulnerable citizens, starting at mothers and children…

33. yup trauma memory is very sensory and is hard to relate as a story like regular memory is..and pieces of it can just pop and wreack havoc. it invades the dreamscape ruining healthy sleep. all manner of things. and people dont understand so you are isolated more and treated as if you are bad, made ot feel like you are bad.

34. i think we need to separate violence from sex..stop calling it sexual assault ect. because violence is being sold to all as if it is sex and what sexual expression looks like. it isn't sex at all. yet this violence is all that is being taught and all that so many, too many people experience.so many were first assaulted in childhood or witnessed assault reinforced by a mass media that promotes violence as "sex" how can anyone heal and know anything else?

35. Children blame themselves, for to blame their abusive parent is to implicitly reject the parent which lead to feelings of abandonment. Nothing frightens a helpless child more than the threat of abandonment. The child transfers the blame to themselves so abandonment does not have to be faced.

    Parental attachment even to an abusive parent is hard wired into children's survival instincts.

36. The worst part about this is none of it is new knowledge. The biological basis of the adverse effects of trauma and chronic stress has been understood for thirty years. Marmot, Sapolski, the ACE studies have all shown this, but governments and medical general practice ignore it. If you allow for trauma, as the cause of dysfunction particularly trauma in childhood all of of the blame we can assign to victims is washed away and we are left with having to face up to our responsibility individually and collectively as perpetrators of the suffering.

37. Most Feminists: Freud was wrong about everything.

    1. was the first to point out the effects of sexual trauma in women and children.

    2. was the first to recognize that gay and bisexual were normal variations of the human condition

    I can write a long list. But the fact that so many feminists constantly recite this idiocy one wonders if the real agenda is to create an unconscious culture.

38. I’m one out of four, yay! USA USA!

39. The violence is a product of late stage capitalism

40. When I served in the Soviet Army amount of abuse among soldiers was staggering and foul language was the language of the day but hardly ever it was connected to sexuality (even though the swearing words were derived from sex) and specifically its perverted ways as I can hear in US army. The whole subject of sexuality is twisted beyond the point of recovery in American culture (and there is something to be said about Germanic culture and sex in general) and all activists like this woman managed to produce as a backlash is only just another nightmare that we witness now in Western countries. However, on a bigger scale, the whole modern industrial society is sick so much that they even have no idea what does it mean to be healthy to begin with.

41. Roy Cohn was Jeffrey Epstein before Jeffrey Epstein. Anyone here think he was the first? Sexual abuse (both as a system of control among the powerful, and as a goal of the powerful) is a thread runs everywhere, you pull it and the whole thing comes apart.

42. Both a fascinating and disturbing interview. Kudos – it can't have been easy.

    On a meta level it is deeply troubling that induced trauma is used to perpetuate hierarchical structures over the generations. Where I live in western Europe some of the medieval social structures largely survived in small towns with a (literally castle dwelling) upper class engaging in abuses and a peasant population meekly accepting the injustices just to maintain the status quo.

    Few people break free from this conspiracy of silence in these close knit communities. Those who do – especially the upper class – are shunned from society and their stories dismissed as mere fantasies. As a result those who remain are even more likely to perpetuate the perfect circle of trauma and domination. And so nothing has really changed over the centuries.

    So how do you break free from generational trauma as an individual, or as a community? Love ought to be the answer, but is it enough?

43. I can't even begin to estimate the irreparable damage being caused by the scale of violence being perpetrated in the world of today.

44. This is why Sociopath PEDOS run the country and world! The public carried the Shame and Guilt from "parents"/Country/Gov

45. The Most Important thing to understand is how Victims protect and defend Abusers. it's NO different than Banks Got Bailed out People Get Sold Out! The Child is Literally ROBBED of their Health, their Energy. The Energy version of Hypo Volemic Shock, blood loss and Altered Mental Status. The Robbed child is Literally in DEBT health wise, Impaired judgement. Just like Hypothermia in advanced stages makes the person move towards COLD because they feel like they're Burning.

46. This should have been a 5 part episode at least.

47. Blame Obama and Biden!

48. It is all systemic starts with Animal rights all the way to human rights.
    Be Vegan
    Veganism is more than a plant based diet.
    Veganism is a movement too world peace.
    Please help save all beings lives from needless suffering.
    We need you to help stop the suffering of all beings. 😭

49. Please stop captitalizing off of the issues of the African Diaspora to promote your authors. And Specialists. Please refer to Francis W. for our people. We are not you.

50. I got her audiobook Trauma and Recovery. It is fantastic . I had no idea as many professionals as she cites in this book had any interest in women's (or veteran's) trauma and its horrific isolating effects, and that they had amassed such a large volume of research results. Thank you.

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