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| Trauma is very common among prison inmates |
| By .jsonline.com - James Causey |
| Published: 05/27/2013 |
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When Jerome Dillard was 14, his best friend died in his arms after being shot in Chicago. Less than a year later, during a domestic dispute that took place just feet in front of him, Dillard witnessed his girlfriend's mother get shot six times by her boyfriend during a domestic dispute. He watched her die as friends rushed her to the hospital. Dillard witnessed several traumatic events firsthand, but there were no grief counselors coming to his aid to help him cope with what he saw. In fact, the response from the community was to simply suck it up and get over it. "I went years with this pain built up inside me, and I didn't know why," Dillard said. "If you don't get that pain out right away and talk about it like you should, it can come out bad." The pain — post-traumatic stress disorder — Dillard described is real. He said a majority of those in the prison system have experienced trauma in their lives and most were never treated for it. PTSD may be one of the many factors leading to the high black male incarceration rate in Milwaukee County. Read More. |
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Any one born in the natural will suffer trauma since all parents are imperfect. If a fox gets a raccoon at birth, the raccoon, being imprinted by the fox, will think that the fox is its mother and it is in the best interest of the raccoon to follow the fox...but the fox may have a meal in mind. Imprinting/trauma/sin affects our perception of reality to some degree. Therefore, because of trauma, we are attracted to what we think we need, rather than what is best for us. Post-traumatic stress disorder for the veteran is bringing part of the enemy with him. Patty Hearst is a prime example of this. She was faithful to that which caused the shock and conformed to the ideology of her captors. This is not uncommon. Since all are imprinted with imperfect parents or governments we will cleave to that which is wrong and be patriotic for that ideology. There are no good guys and bad guys after trauma. There are only traumatized people that conform or rebel to the system. This is the flight or fight concept. The true self can be regenerated by locating the triggers and not accepting our reactions as the causal factor. Something was put into us before or after birth. Not all issues are genetic, even with disease. Some things skip a generation, but the ideology is still there. Hating an alcoholic father and resenting him can cause one to become an alcoholic or a religious person who resents drunks, thinking his view is better than his father. In reality the alcoholic or religious person who is a teetotaler are both two sides of the same coin. To be delivered from religion one only needs to be regenerated by the Spirit of God and the alcoholic must let go of his resentment and the need for the bottle will cease automatically. Alcoholics Anonymous teaches these principles. Resentment is the cause of the alcoholism. The alcohol is a symptom. Religion is the opiate of the masses, but a relationship with God will deliver from alcohol and religion. Secular humanism is a religion. There are no absolute truths there. Everything is a perception due to trauma. This is why one should never resent those who do wrong with a jaundiced, narcissistic viewpoint unless through wrong judgment we take on part of the adversaries' ideology. We should not resent individuals that know not what they do, lest we be drawn into their own hell. The Just Judge we meet after death.