Lesley Carhart Oct 29

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 29

This is a natural reaction of your brain to repeatedly seeing horrific things. It will pay less and less attention to those images and have less of a visceral reaction. You can accept horrors.

This is what the fascists want. They want you to accept things continually getting worse and more violent.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 29
I know it’s overwhelming right now, but kick in your rational brain and risk measures and then evaluate if things are the same or as good as they were a year ago, ten years ago, etc. Is this something you would have considered normal or noteworthy? Is this what you’d expect from the gov or media?
Show threadAnne OminousOct 29

@hacks4pancakes

yup

this is why several people, some historians, advised people to keep a diary or a list of things they think will never change, or that they would never do, in trump's first term

it feels far more pressing now to do those things, and we're all exhausted.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7382605.Sarah_Kendzior

Show threadcrispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)Oct 30
@rustoleumlove @hacks4pancakes how do we incense ourselves to be sensitized by trauma through historic recollection seems counter productive.

My resilient mind is an asset.

We should instead spend effort on the question: How do we resist?

Trauma has not changed our underlying convictions, only marginalized our response.
Show threadAnne Ominous

@Nimbius666

yet you cannot speak for everyone when you claim 'trauma does not change underlying convictions'

i think the point is to prevent being normalized, so that you have something to compare your current situation to, from a very personal perspective -- your own.
bc many ppl ARE normalized. there's even a name for one aspect of it - called normalcy bias.

it's not to say one should not resist; many of us are actually capable of doing more than one thing, even if we are traumatized

Oct 30 at 12:54amWeb
Show threadcrispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)Oct 30
@rustoleumlove you are absolutely correct. Its not appropriate to speak for everyone with trauma. I was cavalier.

You are a medical professional. May I know, how do we heal from this trauma and move on to resistance.