"What causes, trauma, then, is a shock that appears to work very much like a bodily threat but is in fact a break in the mind's experience of time," (61). This is Caruth's interpretation of Freud's explanation on what causes trauma. This makes me question how one can classify what trauma really is. In regards to this statement, I could consider the feeling you sometimes get when you are driving a familiar road and completely forget how long you have been driving or even driving over a particular stretch of road. Just a few days ago I completely forgot driving over the Skyway bridge. I hardly consider myself traumatized by the event but I would consider it as a break in the mind's experience of time. Trauma is a hard thing to define, diagnosis and treat. Winters mentions how for a long time soldiers were unable to receive compensation for post traumatic stress disorder. In a way I can understand this because it is difficult to treat as she says. There is therapy and drugs but neither one is one-hundred percent effective. Not to mention you cannot just take a pill to make everything go away, you have to deal with your emotions and a lot of the time no one can help you with that but yourself.
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