One of my oldest and best friends posted a hell of an account of life in Minneapolis right now.
This whole thing rings so true. “A series of snapshots,” she says — and every one of us here is accumulating our own heavy stack of such snapshots.
Original post: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1T31r4jeeX/
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell not a mental health professional here.
I've read that experiencing events as a series of snapshots or discrete scenes is a telltale sign of war trauma.
Just in case anyone outside of your area things "oh how cute they're getting scrapbooks of memories" - no, this is what happens when the brain is highly stressed and searing some memories indelibly while suppressing retention of others, because knowing where the potentially lethal threat is coming from must be retained, and other memory production is impaired (possibly as a survival mechanism to later have less conscious trauma to process).
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