Invisible Scars: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Examined
Project R.A.R.E. x #NotOkay
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Hanif Benjamin - What is mental health and why does the stigma prevent healing?
"It doesn't mean that yuh mad."
If you went through something traumatic and you need to get help, it have no shame in it.
Hanif Benjamin - Why do we need to process and deal with trauma?
It's #notokay to tell people:
✔️ Jus get over it
✔️ You need to toughen up
✔️ dat still bothering you
✔️ doh study it
✔️ but I went through that and I good
When they can't get over something traumatic. If people doh take d time to process and heal from trauma properly, it could have all kinds of long-term effects on them.
Hanif Benjamin - Trauma also Affects Children
"Too often young people are pushed to the side in traumatic events."
Masudah Baptiste - Why we need to understand PTSD
Trinidad and Tobago is, sadly, a country with so much violence, murder, kidnapping, and crime. ?
We need to understand what PTSD is, because it affects many of us.
Masudah Baptiste - Advice for managing PTSD symptoms
Masudah has some advice on how manage some of your symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Masudah Baptiste - Some of the Physiological Symptoms of PTSD
"You may not be able to sleep."
Masudah Baptiste - How to Help Someone Traumatized
"Be a listening ear to that person. Because post-traumatic stress disorder requires you to be supportive."
Nicholas Voisin- What is Trauma?
Simple and easy-to-follow guide about trauma and PTSD, and it covers the different effects of trauma and breaks them down for you.
Nicholas Voisin: Repressed Memories
You probably heard d term 'repressed memories' before. This is what they are.
Nicholas Voisin: Triggers
A trigger takes you back to the traumatic event.
Trinidad and Tobago is a traumatized society
We are a traumatized society. This is why we need to understand how to heal from trauma.
Kenycia: "You still on that?"
Things we shouldn't say to people who have been through something traumatic.
Kenycia Doyle: What is Trauma
“Right here in Trinidad, we had some flooding, and to some people that may have been a [traumatic] event… We can’t judge people for what we might think is a ‘little’ thing.”
What can be considered trauma?
Tameka Romeo: Trauma of losing someone to crime
So many murders, so many kidnappings, so many missing people, so many people across the country suffering in a way that we had no idea.
Caron Asgarali: PTSD from being Shot
Caron was shot in the face when bandits attempted to take her car. Because they were unable to steal the car, they just started firing anyway, and, as a result, she was shot multiple times.
It should go without saying that being shot is traumatic, and she talks here about how she developed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder afterwards.
It's important that we are aware of what PTSD is and how badly it can affect us if we don't get help.
Advice for dealing with trauma
Caron shares her advice for dealing with trauma.
"Trauma Timeline"
There is no "timeline" for healing from trauma.
Social Media and Trauma
Can we please stop sharing pictures and videos of people being shot or dying or other graphic things?
Social Media and Trauma
This is the reality of what a survivor of sexual assault goes through after. It's #notokay to expect someone who has been sexually assaulted to easily get over it and move on.
Ashley: If you know someone who was sexually assaulted
"Asking for details that are not relevant. I don't know why people do that."
Advice for what you can say and what is #notokay to say.
Ashley: advice for sexual assault survivors
"There's a part of you that just wants to get better already, but it doesn't work like that. And you just have to be gentle with yourself."
Nicholas Voisin-- Advice for overcoming trauma
Powerful advice from a psychologist for overcoming trauma.