Mastodawn

The God They Praised, The Monster I Survived

I was just a child sitting at a desk that felt too big for me, feet swinging above the floor, pretending I understood the lesson. The fluorescent lights hummed overhead, the clock ticked too loudly...

Brainz Magazine

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖Jan 4

Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.

- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

#BesselVanDerKolk #TheBodyKeepstheScore

Hacker News Oct 22

The Body Keeps the Score Is Bullshit

https://josepheverettwil.substack.com/p/the-body-keeps-the-score-is-bullshit

#HackerNews #TheBodyKeepsTheScore #IsBullshit #MentalHealth #Critique #Substack #Discussion #Psychology

The Body Keeps the Score is Bullshit

The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations

Joseph Everett’s WIL Newsletter

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖May 26, 2025

Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.

- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

#TheBodyKeepsTheScore #BesselVanDerKolk #MentalHealth #safety #connection #psychology #books

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖May 26, 2025

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

- Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

#BesselVanDerKolk #TheBodyKeepsTheScore #trauma #psychology #books

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖May 26, 2025

Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.

- Bessel van der Kolk,The Body Keeps the Score

#trauma #feelings #PTSD #TheBodyKeepsTheScore #psychology #books

L e i l a n i 🐝Apr 27, 2025

Hey Siri*, play Mystikal’s “Shake Ya Ass” 🤪

This is your friendly reminder that shaking your butt is literally healing by moving necessary energy in and up from your root and sacral centers 😋

So shake ya ass ! But watch yourself 😉

#somatichealing #thebodykeepsthescore #dance #dancetherapy

*JK. I sure as hell don’t keep ‘Hey Siri’ turned on on my phone. Hard pass on the constant surveillance 😇

Aya Apr 2, 2025

Sometimes the coping mechanisms that keep us safe also end up hurting us. Luna walks through the world with her head down—not because she wants to, but because life taught her to. Years of trauma, fear, and judgment made it feel safer to become invisible. When you’ve experienced repeated harm just for existing, lowering your gaze becomes second nature. You shrink yourself to survive.

But over time, survival mode has a cost.

In this comic, we explore the way mental health and trauma physically manifest in the body. Luna’s posture isn’t just about slouching—it’s about self-protection. It’s about shielding herself from the people who stared, laughed, judged, or did worse. And now, her body carries the weight of that history: the back pain, the neck pain, the constant dizziness… all reminders that trauma doesn’t just live in the mind. It settles in the bones, the muscles, the posture we carry through the world.

There’s no shame in needing to feel safe. There’s no shame in walking a little differently because of what you’ve been through. This comic is for anyone who’s been told, “Just stand up straight” without anyone asking what made you curl in the first place.

We see you. You’re not alone in this.

Have you noticed your mental health affecting your physical body? We’d love to hear your story in the comments if you’re open to sharing.

#ADayInTheLuna #MentalHealthAwareness #ChronicPain #TraumaResponse #PTSD #InvisibleDisability #NeurodivergentVoices #Anxiety #TheBodyKeepsTheScore #ArtAsHealing

Corey Wilson 🇨🇦Mar 18, 2024

“Trauma is not an unusual experience”

Todays post and sketchnote is based on “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk. My middle child started reading it so I thought I’d re-visit it.

The sketchnote is based on this short video by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iTefkqYQz8g

https://www.pattycaketaffypull.com/blog/sketchnote

#sketchnote #TheBodyKeepsTheScore
#trauma