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Khaled Nasser is a family communication consultant who specializes in couple therapy, parenting and trauma. He also contributes to neurofeedback and therapy sessions at the Trauma Center in Boston and among refugee communities in the Middle East and Europe, respectively. Nasser is a lecturer in Communication at the Lebanese American University and the American University of Beirut. Contact Details
I was preparing today a workshop on trauma and came across this survey about the feeling of helplessness. Thought sharing it with you.. I believe many Lebanese families today are feeling helpless and hopeless!!
Check the sentences that currently apply to you:
(by the way, you can easily replace the word "people" with "our government")
1. People ignore my needs.
2. No one understands me.
3. When they look at me, people don't really see me.
4. People expect too much from me.
5. People take advantage of me and use me.
6. People want to control me.
7. People are always yelling at me for things I didn't do.
8. People manipulate me.
9. People have no respect for me.
10. People bully me and are mean to me.
11. People say cruel things to me.
12. People have no respect for me.
13. People don't treat me fairly.
14. People don't hear what I say.
15. People don't care about me.
16. People don't help me when I need help.
17. People reject me.
18. People don't value me.
19. People take me for granted.
20. People think I am stupid.
21. People see me as unattractive.
How many of the above statements did you check?
(copied from Williams & Poijula, 2013)
Stay vigilant and keep believing..
K.
30/11/2020
In Japan, the lockdown and social isolation are killing more people than the CoronaVirus!!
In Japan, more people died from su***de last month than from Covid in all of 2020 More people died from su***de in Japan in October than succumbed to Covid-19 all year. And more women are taking their own lives, as they lose part-time work and take on the bulk of family responsibilities at home.
An interview/session with Rabih Shantaf from BeirutCity
11/08/2020
كيف تخفف من وطأة استرجاع مشاهد الإنفجار في رأسك؟
معظمنا يعاني الآن من إسترجاع مشاهد الرعب والصدمة التي حدثت أثناء إنفجار بيروت. هذه ردة فعل طبيعية لدماغ الإنسان، والذي يجد نفسه عالقاً في هذه اللحظة الأليمة، لشدة وطأتها. معظم الناس التي تعاني من الصدمات تستعيد هذه المشاهد، أو ما يسمى بالflashback مراراً وتكراراً.
فكيف نتخلص من إستعادة المشاهد المؤلمة؟ إليكم بعض النصائح:
10/08/2020
HOW TO REDUCE FLASHBACKS AFTER THE EXPLOSION
Most of us are probably reliving the event over and over in our head with all its intrusive negative emotions.
Flashbacks are natural expressions. They are the result of our emotional brain getting stuck in the past, in time and place. They follow traumatic events. People freeze, daydreaming about the terror they went through.
So how do you reduce flashbacks?
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