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©ptsdinfo.net 2006
| WHAT MATTERS MOST Living a More Considered Life © 2009 by James Hollis, PhD |
| "A so-called nervous breakdown is the flooding of the psyche by an overwhelming onslaught of experience, especially experience discordant with ego expectations. Post-traumatic stress disorder, of which we hear much today, is a flooding of psychic resources by a traumatically overwhelming level of volts of experience. The flashbacks, somatic symptoms, or panic attacks of PTSD are a periodic breakdown of psyche’s resources by reactivation of that overwhelming affect. All of us have our limitations, and life can and will overwhelm them from time to time. When one has a supportive circle, the compassion rather than the derision of other, or linkage to transcendent experience, one recovers a map of the world and reorients one’s journey sooner. Many find that the map by which they orient their lives now has to be larger and include more than seemed necessary theretofore. Most of us knit and heal, and sometimes are even stronger for the breaking, and some of us cannot." |
Used with permission of the author October 18, 2010.
