Thinking today about the many stories of violence I heard in my career. In my early years there were several unusual cases. I had experience prior to these with psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, psychosis and the like, but I was new to the bareface of trauma. One story that has stayed with me since then was told by a woman patient. She said she had been buried standing up as a child on several occasions by her father.
She described having only her head unburied, and that her father instructed her to keep her eyes open and to watch what he did. She said the most agonizing 'show' was watching as he butchered her dog. She believed that if she did not watch, he would shoot her in the head.
Another? Yes, there are others. I shall wait before reporting more. Simply typing them out is difficult.
