PTSD Made Invisible

LIMBO

PTSD made Invisible

To find out that you from ´societie´s  perspective are no longer cost effective is offensive to most of us. When you finally are starting to "get it", to understand the nature of your mistakes and strategies,  and with an authentic respect for your next disregarding if your ideas of existence disagree,  when you by experience know what battles to pick and you are able to "read" people better than ever, you will have put up with that your services are no longer needed.

My colleagues andI have been working principally with victims of torture and warfare, nationally and internationally. We have  ardously strived to learn and keep me updated with regards to Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD), a journey with many set backs for all of us who have tried to assist the destitute victims. When finally effective techniques have moved us towards the light in the tunnel, you are promptly told that, due to the financial recession, PTSD is no longer a prioritized rehabilitation sector, the victims and the counselors are literally made invisible and a life-long suffering for the patients is a perfectly reasonable evil to tolerate according to the decisionmakers.

So here we are: with a considerably expanded capacity to treat our clients and patients but dismissed by the public and medical sector to implement our improved insights.

I find myself in free fall or in a limbo, stripped of all power to influence and to, together with my colleaques, find increasingly durable solutions, social and healthwise, to the expanding target group of PTSD victims, because finally PTSD has been accepted, not only with regards to victims of torture or oganized violence, but also victims of domestic violence, aggression, rape and even mobbing while the financial resources are being cut.

Needless to say, I turn away from this world as much as possible, except for my comfort in flora and fauna. I have left the barricades and the front line with no intention to return. And with deep regret I accept that people like us are regarded as an inconvenience. Well, at least being a nuisance gives me some pleasure....

Just a thought

Douglas Modig

2014