Also, the traumatic experience could lead the intensify of alienation between peoples. If people could not treat others with their true heart, their deceit and concealment will also create traumatic experiences to others. The trauma is like the cancer cell, which lurking in the deep of our mind, influent other people one by one. The lack of true message during the contacts would induce the distrust of anyone around us. And someone would be affect by other people in casual that could leave the seeds of tragedy in their hearts. Also, people who have these negative emotions, will become other’s trauma without knowing it. Caruth mentions that, the trauma has the characteristic of latency which is people who have trauma will not easily show it on …show more content…
In these patients live, they always hurt others unconsciousness. Only because of the suspicions caused by distrust. In the comic, the author’s father and the person he remarried could have a better marriage life than the current situation after the war. However, due to the excessive strong suspicion, Valadek recognized all the things based only on his self-knowledge, then ignored and refused all others explanation. As a result, his wife left him, and the marriage ended in the meaningless squabble. In Art’s comic “Maus I”, there is a character has distinctive personality called Mala who is the second marriage partner of Valadek. After she spent a long time living with Valadek, Mala started to complain about his strange behaviors. Mala said: “Fah! I went through the camps… All our friends went through the camps. Nobody is like him!” (Spiegelman, 131) It means that she cannot endure him anymore because of his refection of traumatic experience. Valadek’s suspicious and obsession drives her crazy. The influence caused by Valadek’s strange temper affected Mala unconsciously, and awake her memories during the wartime. Mala is also a person who survived from the war and faced various difficulties and pains. These traumas caused the situation changed to the distrust in each other. Thus, the distrust caused by trauma is like the cancer
In the short story “Love Medicine”, Louise Erdrich uses imagery to convey the idea of loving his or her surroundings through the human senses. There are many articles that support the sense of imagery that “Love Medicine” conveys. Barry, Nora, and Mary Prescott convey their understanding of the short story by there article “The Triumph of the Brave: Love Medicine’s Holistic Vision.” The Purpose of this article is to show the readers the different ways that the characters viewed the world. Louise Flavin wrote “Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine: Loving Over Time and Distance.” the figurative language and symbolic understanding of “Love Medicine” is the article’s general topic. Karen Janet McKinney wrote an article called “False Miracles and Failed Visions in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” The purpose of the article is to go through the story and explain the meaning behind the story. The last article that supports the senses of imagery is Lydia Schultz “Fragments and Objective Stories: Narrative Strategies in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” The article’s general topic shows how “Love Medicine” appears to the
Almost doctors and physicians in the world have worked at a hospital, so they must know many patients’ circumstances. They have to do many medical treatments when the patients come to the emergency room. It looks like horror films with many torture scenes, and the patients have to pay for their pains. The doctors have to give the decisions for every circumstance, so they are very stressful. They just want to die instead of suffering those medical treatments. In that time, the patients’ family just believes in the doctors and tells them to do whatever they can, but the doctors just do something that 's possible. Almost patients have died after that expensive medical treatments, but the doctors still do those medical procedures. That doctors did not have enough confidence to tell the truth to the patients’ families. Other doctors have more confidence, so they explain the health condition to the patients’ families. One time, the author could not save his patient, and the patient had found another doctor to help her. That doctor decided to cut her legs, but the patient still died in fourteen days
Especially in the book Miss America by Day, it mentioned about one of the maltreatments called incest (Maltreatment is intentional harm to or endangerment of a child, Incest is a sexual relations between persons closely related.). Like in the situation of Marilyn, author of the Miss America, she went through incest with her father at the age of five to eighteen, so until she became an adult it was very hard for her to tell her own story to anybody because she was afraid nobody would believe in her. Like the Child, Family, School, Community says, “the closer the victim and offender are emotionally, the greater trauma the victim experiences.” I agree with this statement, it is true that the closer the offender to the victim which the greater the trauma victim experiences. Some of the maltreatments are temperament of the child, marital distress, unemployment, lack of community support, and cultural values such as tolerance of violence can be considered as maltreatment. Other symptoms are poor social skills with peers of their own age(s), unable to trust other people, feel depression, commit suicide, have self-destructive, and confusion about their sexuality. It also said that high percentage of drug abusers, juvenile runaways, and prostitutes have been sexually abused when they were children. But for Marilyn Van Derbur felt very depressed and had temperament, but she coped with her pain by socializing and acting out as if nothing happened to her because she has to keep it as secret from everybody else ( Child, Family, School,
Many experience historical trauma response, which is the grief they feel due to the trauma amongst the people
This internal conflict is a result of the mistakes a physician makes, and the ability to move on from it is regarded as almost unreachable. For example, in the essay, “When Doctors Make Mistakes”, Gawande is standing over his patient Louise Williams, viewing her “lips blue, her throat swollen, bloody, and suddenly closed passage” (73). The imagery of the patient’s lifeless body gives a larger meaning to the doctor’s daily preoccupations. Gawande’s use of morbid language helps the reader identify that death is, unfortunately, a facet of a physician’s career. However, Gawande does not leave the reader to ponder of what emotions went through him after witnessing the loss of his patient. He writes, “Perhaps a backup suction device should always be at hand, and better light more easily available. Perhaps the institutions could have trained me better for such crises” (“When Doctors Make Mistakes” 73). The repetition of “perhaps” only epitomizes the inability to move on from making a mistake. However, this repetitive language also demonstrates the ends a doctor will meet to save a patient’s life (73). Therefore, it is not the doctor, but medicine itself that can be seen as the gateway from life to death or vice versa. Although the limitations of medicine can allow for the death of a patient to occur, a doctor will still experience emotional turmoil after losing someone he was trying to
The symptoms of trauma are hyperarousal, intrusion, and constriction. The symptoms of trauma are, “attempts to … prevent another traumatic experience like the last.” (Herman) Hyperarousal is a, “persistent expectation of danger” (Herman). Mai’s hyperarousal is comprised of her avoidance of anything related to Vietnam and thus could remind her of My Hoa. A specific example of Mai’s hyper...
Memories of a traumatic experience can cause a range of different negative mental health issues. After someone has been through a traumatic experience, the memories attached to the event are not like any other normal memory. Hayasaki describes this when she says, “the stronger the emotion attached to a moment, the more likely those parts of our brains involved in memory will become activated.” She explains that the reason traumatic memories hold such powerful reactions is that because, during the time of the events in the memory, there were strong emotions connections to the moment while it was being experienced. The feelings left from the memories that have strong emotions behind them can cause severe mental issues. Those emotions from the memories can hold fears that can affect almost every aspect of the person 's life, causing them not to be able to jump back into their daily life routine. PTSD is the biggest mental problem that comes from those types of memories. Lehrer helps proves this by saying, “PTSD memories remain horribly intense, bleeding into the present and ruining the future.” This shows that the unpleasant emotions that a traumatic memory holds can lead to health problems in the future, such as anxiety, addiction, and, of course, PTSD. Unfortunately, that 's not the worst part; there is not yet a way to cure these memories.
“The essential psychological effect of trauma is a shattering of innocence” (Margolies). A shattering of innocence means that a person can never look at the world in the same way because they are always afraid of another traumatic event. “In order to be diagnosed with PTSD, a person must have three different types of symptoms: re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance and numbing symptoms, and arousal symptoms” ("Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."). Re-experiencing symptoms include ones that are triggered by past memories of the situation. Avoidance and numbing symptoms occur when the person is trying to avoid everything related to the event such as certain locations or television shows that could have a possible relation to the traumatic event. Arousal symptoms happen when the victim is constantly alert for another traumatic event. One of the most serious effects of PTSD is that the victims “may develop additional disorders such as depression, substance abuse, problems of memory and cognition, and other problems of physical and mental health” ("Post Traumatic Stress Disorder."). Substance abuse, for example, can drastically change the human body mentally and physically. These effects and symptoms usually last longer than 3 months
Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine, is a series of connected stories told from the viewpoints of several characters. All of these characters are presented with conflicts throughout their lives, and one character in particular that stood out was Nector Kashpaw. The conflicts he faces in his life are unfolded and further explained over the course of the novel, from his easy beginnings to his accidental death.
“Trauma is used when describing emotionally painful and distressing experiences or situations that can overwhelm a person’s ability to cope” (John A. Rich, Theodore Corbin, & Sandra Bloom, 2008). Trauma could include deaths, violence, verbal and nonverbal words and actions, discrimination, racism etc. Trauma could result in serious long-term effects on a person’s health, mental stability, and physical body. Judith Herman, from Trauma and Recovery, said “Traumatic events are extraordinary, not because they occur rarely, but rather because they overwhelm the ordinary human adaptations to life” (John A. Rich, Theodore Corbin, & Sandra Bloom, 2008). Trauma does not involve the same experiences for everyone; each individual is unique in that they, and only they, can decide what is traumatic for them.
PTSD is a debilitating mental illness that occurs when someone is exposed to a traumatic, dangerous, frightening, or a possibly life-threating occurrence. “It is an anxiety disorder that can interfere with your relationships, your work, and your social life.” (Muscari, pp. 3-7) Trauma affects everyone in different ways. Everyone feels wide ranges of emotions after going through or witnessing a traumatic event, fear, sadness and depression, it can cause changes in your everyday life as in your sleep and eating patterns. Some people experience reoccurring thoughts and nightmares about the event.
Traumatic experience, usually hard to detected by other and get prompt treatment. It also has some significantly affects to patient’s normal life. Not only that, it could affect a group of people’s social contact, even people’s ability of communication. In Cathy Caruth’s article Trauma and experience, she mainly introduced the basic symptoms and main causes of trauma which the PTSD could be caused by carrying on impossible history, arousal to stimuli recalling the event and etc. At the same time, in Art Spiegelman’s comic Maus I and Maus II, there are many characters in the author’s narratives who are bothering by the trauma experience. The psychological illness made their trust between whether the people they close to or any stranger become
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The creation of a stressful psychological state of mind is prevalent in the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as, Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, Ophelia’s struggles in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, and the self-inflicted sickness seen in William Blake’s “Mad Song”. All the characters, in these stories and poems, are subjected to external forces that plant the seed of irrationality into their minds; thus, creating an adverse intellectual reaction, that from an outsider’s point of view, could be misconstrued as being in an altered state due to the introduction of a drug, prescribed or otherwise, furthering the percep...
The main character or the narrator is married to a doctor who is a typical male of those times. Also she has a brother who is in a similar profession as her husband. The narrator knows that she is not too well and that John - her husband does not realize the intensity of her sickness, he ignores her continuous efforts to make him aware of the real situation and her suffering. To make the situation worse he imposes his opinions on her even when it comes to her health.