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 a compendium for more in-depth reading.
3 The orange keywords are linked to a compendium for more in-depth reading.
No matter how much time has passed. Our wounds signify the brutal reality of unprocessed emotions, of trauma that hasn’t been processed by the mind and the body.
There, Eva was clearly overwhelmed by the sense of being interrogated. It seems the sterile nature of this institutionalised environment made Eva feel isolated and uncared for. In her loneliness and despair, Eva also recounted being attached to one of the doctors.
We see her struggling to come to terms with idealising one of her doctors - a phenomenon that is actually hotly debated in the psychiatric field under the psychodynamic perspective. Her complex feelings of despair as a reaction to her doctor’s professional (and distant) demeanour continues, years after the event.
Here’s a lifeline:
Therapies such as EMDR or Talk Therapy (also known as Psychotherapy) have been shown to be helpful to deal with the emotional dysregulation and affect intolerance (To put simply, this means how much of your emotion can you sit with, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it).
Both methods are meant to reduce the levels of emotional distress felt in the present moment, which stem from the old traumatic memories.
Understand, though: no matter the time it takes, or the difficulty of the process – It is possible to get better.