There are schools of psychology and old school psychologists that believe these kinds of crises can be transformative for the soul. I think of Jung, James Hillman, Marie Louise von Franz etc. Also many indigenous cultures have deep cultural ways of bringing people through crises like this. I think of Leslie Marmon Silko's book, Ceremony,…
There are schools of psychology and old school psychologists that believe these kinds of crises can be transformative for the soul. I think of Jung, James Hillman, Marie Louise von Franz etc. Also many indigenous cultures have deep cultural ways of bringing people through crises like this. I think of Leslie Marmon Silko's book, Ceremony, in which (if I remember correctly) a PTSD'ed Vietnam vet is healed through a community ritual. The answer is not always medication, and it seems profoundly normal to go a bit mad from loss. One thing that is allowing the barbarians to try to take over is the terrible unhealed loss people are feeling and experiencing, which is being quite purposefully repressed. We all carry the load of what is unnamed and ungrieved and unresolved in the world at large. Coming through always confers strength. Good for you!
There are schools of psychology and old school psychologists that believe these kinds of crises can be transformative for the soul. I think of Jung, James Hillman, Marie Louise von Franz etc. Also many indigenous cultures have deep cultural ways of bringing people through crises like this. I think of Leslie Marmon Silko's book, Ceremony, in which (if I remember correctly) a PTSD'ed Vietnam vet is healed through a community ritual. The answer is not always medication, and it seems profoundly normal to go a bit mad from loss. One thing that is allowing the barbarians to try to take over is the terrible unhealed loss people are feeling and experiencing, which is being quite purposefully repressed. We all carry the load of what is unnamed and ungrieved and unresolved in the world at large. Coming through always confers strength. Good for you!