Thank you Mohammed for writing and sharing this important article. I hope it
is read widely. I cry silently and breathe through the pain and tell myself this is not about you(me)while reading the article. Not to detach myself from it but to prevent the overwhelm of feelings that are stirred up by reading it and being too familiar with PTSD.The anxiety of knowing that so many people if they will even survive are traumatised for the rest of their lives of their lives which is very hard to recover from even in the best circumstances and it will never leave at best you are given the right tools to cope and survival mode is not the best way of living a full healthy and happy life. I won’t say it can’t be done. So again Mohammed thank you for writing and sharing this so important story. And an enormously big hug from me. 🫂👊❤️
I am traumatized by the genocide, and I am safe and far from the day-to-day horrors. I imagine numbness is the only way to keep breathing, but I also know as someone who has suffered from depression for most of my life how dangerous numbness can be. Prolonged numbness turns seriously dangerous. I suspect many people take serious risks because they have to, but also because risk taking can come with severe depression, as if we’re daring the world (or Isntreal, in this case) to put us out of our misery. I don’t know how people can recover from the horrors of this genocide, if any heart could, but I hope they can. I really hope someone can. 💔
Dear Mohammed: Like (I’m certain) many thousands of others, I was deeply moved and emotionally affected by everything you shared in your interview today on NPR. I’m writing to share a link to my song, “Lullaby For A Child In War” (on YouTube, with lyrics) in the hope you may find the song an appropriate musical reflection of the themes and stories from Gaza you share in your New Yorker article. With thanks and blessings, Mike Nobel, Gorham, Maine. email: mikenobel4@gmail.com , imagesofpeace7@gmail.com
Dear Mohammed: Like (I’m certain) many thousands of others, I was deeply moved and emotionally affected by everything you shared in your interview today on NPR. I’m writing to share a link to my song, “Lullaby For A Child In War” (on YouTube, with lyrics) in the hope you may find the song an appropriate musical reflection of the themes and stories from Gaza you share in your New Yorker article. With thanks and blessings, Mike Nobel, Gorham, Maine. email: mikenobel4@gmail.com , imagesofpeace7@gmail.com
Thank you Mohammed for writing and sharing this important article. I hope it
is read widely. I cry silently and breathe through the pain and tell myself this is not about you(me)while reading the article. Not to detach myself from it but to prevent the overwhelm of feelings that are stirred up by reading it and being too familiar with PTSD.The anxiety of knowing that so many people if they will even survive are traumatised for the rest of their lives of their lives which is very hard to recover from even in the best circumstances and it will never leave at best you are given the right tools to cope and survival mode is not the best way of living a full healthy and happy life. I won’t say it can’t be done. So again Mohammed thank you for writing and sharing this so important story. And an enormously big hug from me. 🫂👊❤️
Very sad and moving commentary.
Such a heartbreaking read. Such an important read. May Allah (swt) reward you for your work brother, Ameen.
Mohammed,
I was thinking about your article, and the incredible work the mental health practioners in Gaza are doing, in such difficulty.
It has stayed with me. It is very well written with such care.
Thank you for posting it.
Antonia
I am traumatized by the genocide, and I am safe and far from the day-to-day horrors. I imagine numbness is the only way to keep breathing, but I also know as someone who has suffered from depression for most of my life how dangerous numbness can be. Prolonged numbness turns seriously dangerous. I suspect many people take serious risks because they have to, but also because risk taking can come with severe depression, as if we’re daring the world (or Isntreal, in this case) to put us out of our misery. I don’t know how people can recover from the horrors of this genocide, if any heart could, but I hope they can. I really hope someone can. 💔
Dear Mohammed: Like (I’m certain) many thousands of others, I was deeply moved and emotionally affected by everything you shared in your interview today on NPR. I’m writing to share a link to my song, “Lullaby For A Child In War” (on YouTube, with lyrics) in the hope you may find the song an appropriate musical reflection of the themes and stories from Gaza you share in your New Yorker article. With thanks and blessings, Mike Nobel, Gorham, Maine. email: mikenobel4@gmail.com , imagesofpeace7@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JqDYAJGzo
Dear Mohammed: Like (I’m certain) many thousands of others, I was deeply moved and emotionally affected by everything you shared in your interview today on NPR. I’m writing to share a link to my song, “Lullaby For A Child In War” (on YouTube, with lyrics) in the hope you may find the song an appropriate musical reflection of the themes and stories from Gaza you share in your New Yorker article. With thanks and blessings, Mike Nobel, Gorham, Maine. email: mikenobel4@gmail.com , imagesofpeace7@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5JqDYAJGzo
Gripping writing in more ways than one! I really like the illustrations too. Feel more of the therapeutic balance after a heart wrenching read.
Sadly I don't subscribe to New Yorker and can't get past its paywall to read your article.
Hi. There’s no paywall on the article. Here 😀
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/treating-gazas-collective-trauma
I can still read just the first 3 sentences, then am asked to subscribe. Thanks for trying, though.
Thank you! I couldn't access it before you provided this link.