“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.” Mental HealthDissociationTraumatizedDehumanizationDissociativeDissociatedCombat PtsdNo Longer HumanDehumanizedMilitary PtsdDissociative Ptsd Book:Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War Source: Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War
“I do not think the long-range bullets I fire provide the mark of a man; I am only dimly aware that they are dehumanising me. They are my opium tto see me through my time here. But with each hit they give, they only provide a feeling respite from the past I cannot escape from and thre present I have chosen to mire myself in. And, grounded as I am in the reality of this hill, I do not yet fully appreciate how this addiction is infecting my future with malediction. With this clinical, psychopathically detached behaviour considered as normal, proper and expected on this hall, I cannot yet stop to think - because I cannot allow myself to here - of how hese respites may be blackening my soul in all the time I will have left on my own back Home - should I even live through the remainder of my months here, in some other corner of this Hell of a country.” WarMilitaryAddictionSoldierPtsdDetachmentDetachedDissociationOpiumMilitary QuoteNo Longer HumanDehumanizedMechanical Mind Book:Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War Source: Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War