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US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
17 hours ago

Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from US

Mass deportation efforts under President Trump raise concerns for immigrant veterans facing potential expulsion despite their military service.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

They all survived Jeffrey Epstein. They have something to tell you

When I delivered my victim impact statement after Maxwell's sentencing, I nearly shouted. I talked about my emotional health, my physical health, how this derailed my life. I wanted to project my voice so that no one in that courtroom could ignore what I was saying.
Social justice
#family-dynamics
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

The hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals

Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago
Mental health

12 Signs of Family Trauma That May Still Affect You Today

Early family dynamics and unmet needs shape adult attachment, boundaries, and repeating unhealthy relationship patterns; awareness of family trauma enables healing.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 days ago

The hardest thing about healing isn't the work itself. It's the quiet grief of realizing how many years you spent believing the problem was you, when the actual problem was an environment that needed you to believe that in order to keep functioning - Silicon Canals

Family systems may require a child to remain unwell for their own functionality, leading to grief and loss when the child realizes their true self.
Boston
fromIrish Independent
4 days ago

Woman who was abused by garda ex-husband says she was broken in 'every part of my life'

Margaret Loftus experienced a recurring nightmare symbolizing her feelings of entrapment while attempting to bring a complaint of domestic abuse.
#ukraine
Pets
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Why People Risk Their Lives for Animals in War

Civilians in Ukraine face life-threatening decisions, often prioritizing their pets over personal safety due to emotional responses under extreme stress.
fromIndependent
1 week ago
Russo-Ukrainian War

'By looking in their eyes, you can really see what war does to a person, it kills a part of you' - A Kilkenny filmmaker's journey into Ukraine

Miscellaneous
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Trauma does not define us': Living with loss in wartime Ukraine

Russia's war in Ukraine inflicts widespread grief and psychological scars while survivors struggle to mourn amid ongoing conflict and constrained burial capacities.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Ukrainian stories: 'When we arrived here, we were like aliens from another planet. I had to start my life from scratch'

Many Ukrainians displaced by Russia's 2022 invasion remain in Ireland years later, facing trauma, loss, and occasional local hostility while rebuilding lives.
Pets
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Why People Risk Their Lives for Animals in War

Civilians in Ukraine face life-threatening decisions, often prioritizing their pets over personal safety due to emotional responses under extreme stress.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromIndependent
1 week ago

'By looking in their eyes, you can really see what war does to a person, it kills a part of you' - A Kilkenny filmmaker's journey into Ukraine

Shane Hatton documented life in Ukraine during wartime while delivering aid with an Irish convoy.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.dw.com
6 days ago

Life in Donbas: 'If we give up, there will be nothing left'

Russia has nearly complete control of Luhansk, while 18% of Donetsk remains contested, with Kostiantynivka as a key target for further advances.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

In Ukraine, Weaving Grief Into a New Collective Memory

Yulia Kolesnikova uses knitting as a therapeutic outlet while waiting for her husband, Maksym Kolesnikov, who was held captive during the Ukraine conflict.
fromIndependent
2 months ago
Miscellaneous

Ukrainian stories: 'When we arrived here, we were like aliens from another planet. I had to start my life from scratch'

fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Victims of sexual violence distressed by MPs' pugnacious' questioning

Witnessing pugnacious questioning resulted in her breaking down, sobbing and struggling to breathe. The committee chair failed to prevent the tone from escalating.
UK politics
Austin
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Emotional Cost of Becoming Someone New

Coping with life changes during a Ph.D. journey involves financial adjustments, emotional challenges, and personal growth.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

The people who were praised for being mature as children and punished for being needy as adults, and the decades it takes to untangle which one was actually true - Silicon Canals

Maturity in children often reflects adult expectations, leading to long-term consequences for the child's emotional development.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Effects of Media Depictions or Mediaspeak on War

A whole vocabulary of mediaspeak terms applied to real life has gradually emerged. Included here, among others, are: collateral damage, neutralized, canceled, surgical strike, playbook, rules of the game, high-value target, and gamechanger.
World politics
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

Psychology says people who still remember exactly where they were when JFK was shot or 9/11 happened aren't clinging to a date on the calendar - they're carrying the exact coordinates of the moment their understanding of the world was permanently rewritten, and the reason those details never fade is because your brain wasn't recording the tragedy, it was recording the last version of you that existed before you knew the world could break like that - Silicon Canals

Flashbulb memories are memories that are affected by our emotional state. Your brain takes a snapshot when the ground shifts under your feet, and that snapshot includes everything—the smell of coffee going cold in your cup holder, the static on the radio, the way your hands suddenly felt too heavy.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Canada's residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed

About 38,000 former students came forward to detail the mistreatment they were subjected to in what was later described as a policy of cultural genocide.
Canada news
Mental health
fromSlate Magazine
1 day ago

My Dad Was Murdered. When People Find Out, They All Ask the Same Question. They Don't Like My Answer.

Anger can be a complex, enduring emotion that transforms over time, often hidden beneath the surface after initial outbursts.
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

Grief, Storytelling, and Identity

The concept album is a response to the brutal murder of Breedlove's father and stepmother at the hands of his stepbrother. The frame—the first song and the last—of the album is about the murders and their aftermath. But this is not a true crime record.
Music production
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Ukraine's veterans' theatre turns war wounds into catharsis

Maryna, the main heroine of Twenty One, has only one wish that her soldier husband Petro comes back alive. She frantically raises tens of thousands of dollars online to buy drones, weapons and power generators for the front line.
Women
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

The people who talk about their childhood like it was fine but can't remember most of it aren't lying. The absence of memory and the absence of trauma feel identical from the inside until something cracks the seal, and by then the person has built an entire adult identity on the version where nothing happened. - Silicon Canals

Childhood amnesia affects memory retention, leading to a lack of vivid recollections from early years despite having a normal upbringing.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

When Leaders Go to War, Their Psychology Goes With Them

Narcissistic leaders often emerge due to fragile egos, leading to decisions that prioritize self-preservation over the well-being of others.
#trauma
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Lie Trauma Tells: 'No One Understands You'

Terminal uniqueness can hinder trauma survivors from seeking support, making connection with empathetic individuals essential for healing.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 days ago

Sexual Assault Survivors Are Not Responsible for Their Own Suffering

The effects of trauma from sexual abuse in adolescence are long-lasting and profoundly alter development.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Lie Trauma Tells: 'No One Understands You'

Terminal uniqueness can hinder trauma survivors from seeking support, making connection with empathetic individuals essential for healing.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says people who grew up in the 1960s and 70s don't handle hardship better than everyone else because they are stronger - they handle it better because they were never offered the alternative, and a person who was never offered the alternative develops a relationship with difficulty that people who were offered it spend their whole lives trying to build in a gym - Silicon Canals

Struggling is a norm for my generation because we never knew life could be comfortable.
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Were Grandma and Grandpa Nazis?

"It does indeed seem to be very appealing to a wider public to conduct their own online research," says historian Johannes Spohr. "But, in Germany, these sources have actually been accessible at the Federal Archives since 1994. And there, one can actually obtain much more information than just about these memberships."
Germany news
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

How a Huggy Dog Is Helping Children With Wartime Trauma

Hibuki, the stuffed animal dog, allows children to project their feelings, helping them to express emotions like sadness and anxiety. The child becomes the caretaker of the dog, which facilitates self-soothing.
Pets
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

The Impact of Detached Reactions to Tragedy

Detached responses to tragedy lower accountability and hinder empathy, while specific, caring responses promote genuine concern and action.
#moral-injury
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Not unique to war': millions of Americans suffer from moral injury. What's causing it?

Moral injury, recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, arises from actions contradicting deeply held beliefs, affecting mental health across various contexts.
Mental health
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Soldiers Need to Understand Why They're Fighting. I Know What Happens When They Don't.

Military personnel experience moral injury from actions they committed or failed to prevent, which complicates PTSD recovery more than trauma from external threats.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Not unique to war': millions of Americans suffer from moral injury. What's causing it?

Moral injury, recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, arises from actions contradicting deeply held beliefs, affecting mental health across various contexts.
Mental health
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Soldiers Need to Understand Why They're Fighting. I Know What Happens When They Don't.

Military personnel experience moral injury from actions they committed or failed to prevent, which complicates PTSD recovery more than trauma from external threats.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

People born in the 1950s display a type of resilience modern generations mistake for coldness - but it's actually a survival adaptation built from being raised by traumatized parents who couldn't afford to process their own pain - Silicon Canals

Generational trauma from war leads to emotional suppression in families, affecting how feelings are expressed and understood across generations.
Healthcare
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Building a Therapeutic Revolution: Veterans Lead the Way

Therapeutic alliance—the collaborative bond between clinician and patient—extends beyond individual clinical encounters to systemic mental health care structures, particularly for treating complex conditions like PTSD and substance use disorders in veteran populations.
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I'm seeing more people in therapy struggling with war-related anxiety. Here's what helps | Ahona Guha

Global events have led to widespread feelings of doom and a sense of globalized trauma affecting societal perceptions of safety and predictability.
fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

Where Do the Disappeared Go? | The Walrus

There is nothing more dangerous than an enforced disappearance. Think about the word for a moment: disappearance. Imagine waking up to find that a relative has vanished without a trace, or that you've been torn away from your family with no explanation. When you're disappeared, anything can happen to you, from verbal humiliation to physical torture or even death.
World news
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Is Searching for Memories of Childhood Trauma Helpful?

Understanding suffering through trauma is appealing but can distract from the need for compassion and treatment regardless of its cause.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Remembering an Angel With a Traumatic Brain Injury

Laura, despite severe brain damage, radiated joy and built meaningful connections with caregivers, enriching their lives through her infectious spirit.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

War as a Psychological State

Authoritarian and narcissistic leaders share a fragile ego unable to tolerate challenge, causing them to experience political opposition as personal threat and deploy military as an extension of their distorted ego rather than as a policy tool.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Ukraine's Other Battle: Healing the Invisible Wounds of War

With millions of soldiers estimated to be suffering from trauma-related conditions, not to mention civilians, Ukraine faces an urgent question: How will it treat the lasting mental scars of war? Among the emerging possibilities is psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) in treatment of war-related trauma, a controversial yet increasingly researched approach that some experts believe could play a transformative role in veteran mental health care.
Russo-Ukrainian War
US news
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

An Iraq veteran voted for peace. Her teen starts basic training at wartime.

A combat veteran mother struggles with her son's military enlistment as the U.S. initiates conflict with Iran, forcing her to confront her own trauma and conflicting political beliefs.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Greetings From My Bomb Shelter

During warfare and crisis, focusing on controllable elements like schedules, rituals, and self-care practices provides psychological stability and resilience.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Secret to Ending All Wars Is the Truth We Already Know

All major wisdom traditions independently teach the same core truth: love your neighbor as yourself, making this the fundamental target of human existence and the antidote to war.
East Bay (California)
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

In war-weary Kyiv, wounded Ukrainian veterans turn epic poetry into living testimony

Veterans and students perform an adaptation of Eneida that uses staged roles and rehabilitation to convey resilience amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Relationships
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

How Grief Rewrites Our Relationships

Grief reshapes relationships, priorities, and emotional capacity, forcing clearer honesty, altered tolerance, and reorganising how people relate and allocate emotional labour.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Haunting of Trauma: PTSD and Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Excellent descriptions of trauma abound, including memoirs, but they are logical and descriptive, constrained by the conventions of straightforward narrative. But trauma itself upends the usual modes of narrative by which we think about our lives: out of sequence and unintegrated, traumatic memories defy the logic that guides our sense of our lives as stories with a past, present, and future. Literary tools such as symbol, allegory, and narrative structure can embody a visceral sense of the ways that trauma can disrupt and diminish a life.
Books
fromKqed
3 months ago

A Generation Orphaned by War: Ukrainian Children Grow Up Amid Loss and Recovery | KQED

"We don't have a bomb shelter near our house, so we were just sitting on the floor in the corridor all night," Katia said.
California
US politics
fromemptywheel
2 months ago

Moral Injury in Trump's America - emptywheel

American democracy is eroding toward autocracy, producing moral injury, societal division, and lasting changes that force painful compromises.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Chronicles of a Needless War

Israeli and US airstrikes damage Tehran's UNESCO World Heritage Golestan Palace, while DC's Epstein installation highlights accountability, and AI copyright protections remain legally unresolved.
World politics
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Psychology of Aerial Bombardment

U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan increased Taliban attacks in targeted villages for at least 120 days, regardless of civilian casualties, suggesting bombing strengthened rather than weakened the insurgency.
Social justice
fromIrish Independent
1 month ago

'I am marching for 20-year-old me whose life was taken from them'

Rape and gender-based violence survivors are organizing International Women's Day marches to demand stronger legal protections against disclosure of counselling notes in sexual offence trials.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

Ukraine's combat amputees cling to hope as a weapon of war

A Ukrainian commander who lost both legs received U.S. prosthetic rehabilitation, relying on nonprofit support, donations, and perseverance to relearn walking and reclaim life.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When Trauma Still Hurts: Memory Rescripting

Memory rescripting, a trauma-focused technique developed in the 1990s, enabled successful treatment of agoraphobia in a patient who refused traditional exposure therapy despite being an ideal CBT candidate.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Our Psychological Response to War News

Exposure to war news triggers mortality awareness, causing people to strengthen their meaning-giving worldviews like nationalism as a psychological defense mechanism.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

How War News Can Affect Your Mental Health

Consuming war-related news increases stress levels, with vulnerability varying by age, emotional regulation ability, and personality traits.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Families call for truth on Kosovo War's missing people

"My mother and sisters were killed on that day. For 26 years, I have not known where their bodies are buried. Every time I see a pit, I think they might be lying there," Gashi says. For more than two decades, he has been haunted by the feeling that the truth could lie right beneath his feet, but remains out of reach.
Miscellaneous
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When Everything Becomes "Trauma"

Psychological trauma, originating from the Greek word for 'wound,' evolved from describing physical injuries to mental wounds in the late 19th century, with usage tripling since the 1970s as the term expanded to encompass various difficult life experiences.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Attitudes Toward War Can Be Predicted by Psychologists

Psychological factors, including childhood maltreatment and social dominance orientation, significantly predict support for military conflict more than political ideology alone.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

KLA veteran: 'Life is hard in Kosovo but we are free.'

On the table are photos from another time: young men in uniform, barely older than 20, with serious expressions on their faces. Haxhimusa runs his fingers over one of the pictures. "That was us," he says quietly. The 58-year-old ethnic Albanian was once a member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that fought against the Serbian police and the Yugoslav Army in the Kosovo War at the end of the 1990s.
Miscellaneous
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Love and Sex in Wartime: How News of War Impacts Intimacy

War exposure through media and direct experience disrupts sexual desire, arousal, satisfaction, and increases distress, while some people seek intimacy as a stress-coping mechanism during collective threat.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Did She Die the Way They Say?

Psychological autopsy clarifies equivocal manners of death but lacks standardized protocols, challenging reliability; qualitative forensic mental-state assessments deserve standing.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Lessons for Life on the Anniversary of a National Disaster

Avoiding six common decision-making errors revealed by past disasters enables more effective and successful decisions across management, coaching, and personal life.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I wondered if I would be a coward or not': five Ukrainian men on how war has changed them

A 24-year-old Ukrainian ex-marine endured three years of Russian captivity involving beatings, torture, starvation, and medical neglect, and returned to a changed family.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Psychology says the generation that survived the most hardship is also the least equipped to talk about it - and their children are paying the therapy bills for that silence - Silicon Canals

Unprocessed trauma from the Greatest Generation created intergenerational emotional wounds passed through silence rather than communication, requiring descendants to seek therapy to break the cycle.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Resilience and Reconstruction: What Now?

Sustainable recovery requires creating environments that honor past losses while providing resources, tools, and systemic support across individual, relational, institutional, and cultural levels.
Mental health
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

When I left the Marines, I moved in with other veterans. All our traumas clashed in the house.

Effective leadership among veterans requires humility, practical service, and adaptability when shared experience does not equal shared mental readiness.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

On Helping Warriors Come Home

For many veterans, returning home marks not resolution but the beginning of a quieter struggle. Despite decades of innovation in trauma-focused therapies and medication, a substantial number continue to live with psychological injuries that existing treatments only partly address. Their trauma is not merely a cluster of symptoms; it is a disruption of identity, moral coherence, and belonging. It reflects lived experience often shaped by early adversity, military culture, and the potentially socially isolating aftermath of service.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Why the Grief Ripples So Deeply When an Advocate Dies

'They're dead.' In disbelief, my response was unfiltered. 'What?' Followed by the F word. A wave of emotion rushed through me. My chest tightened. My body went cold. I could not immediately find the words to offer condolences, not because I did not feel them deeply, but because inside, my many parts were experiencing a collective shock. When you live with dissociative identity disorder (DID), news like this does not land in one place. It ricochets across all parts within.
Mental health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

The Transformative Power of Speaking Out

Overpopulation, cultural erosion, and escalating violence have generated pervasive fear and trauma among the Raizal people on San Andrés Island.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

The hardest part of healing isn't facing what happened to you. It's grieving the version of yourself that had to exist because of it. - Silicon Canals

Therapy's hardest work involves grieving the adaptive self—the survival identity you constructed—rather than confronting initial trauma, requiring surrender rather than courage.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

When Telling Your Story Costs You

DID is an adaptive, trauma-based survival response, not spectacle; media interviews often violate survivors' boundaries, causing harm and unequal power dynamics.
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