1 This is a video of Eva’s memory.
As we walk with you through Eva’s room, you will find “home” videos of Eva’s memories. Here, we have an actress playing Eva, reading out the words of excerpts of 4.48 Psychosis (a favourite text of ours).
As we walk with you through Eva’s room, you will find “home” videos of Eva’s memories. Here, we have an actress playing Eva, reading out the words of excerpts of 4.48 Psychosis (a favourite text of ours).
2 Click on the label for guided mental health commentary from accredited psychologists.
3 The orange keywords are linked to our compendium which provides more in-depth readings.
3 The orange keywords are linked to our compendium which provides more in-depth readings.
A flashback sneaks up on you with no warning — it doesn’t care if you are awake or asleep. And there is no way to know when the next flashback will hit, or how long it will last. Being in a flashback is an act of reliving trauma— where feelings of being acutely unsafe are looped, triggering accompanying stress hormones in the brain — thereby carving the memories more deeply into her mind. When one is overwhelmed by flashbacks, ordinary, day-to-day events become increasingly less compelling. Flashbacks make it impossible to feel fully alive.
While experiencing this flashback, it is entirely possible that Eva is dissociating. Dissociation is a mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. To protect yourself, your mind blocks things out; pulls you back from experiencing the full blast of events at hand. We witness here Eva’s glazed- over look, a sense that she is not being fully present.
Beware that by following this story, we are in some ways, circling a wound. Mental health and mental illness aren’t singular events, they are about the daily struggle of living.
We will be here, to walk you through this.