Posted on 07/21/2015 1:39:09 PM PDT by dware
Twelve years after her capture during the Iraq War, Jessica Lynch, 32, still suffers from the emotional and physical trauma of the ordeal.
She is haunted by nightmares of Iraqi men chasing her through woods, always waking up before they catch her.
Lynch is no stranger to sleepless nights and she constantly locks and rechecks all of the doors and windows in her home.
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I totally understand her. I was raped nine years ago and it still haunts me even though my attacker is dead. It never quite goes away.
Inspirational. Thanks for posting the update about her.
Israel has pulled women off the front lines. Obama wants to put them up front.
I can very well see how that level of trauma would linger.
The move towards having women in combat, on submarines, etc. is not based on the needs of the military.
Because of the need to be liberal and politically correct, we have been compelled to look at women in combat, in the Navy Seals, etc. as some sort of civil rights issue. The way I look at it, the military is fundamentally different from civilian life, and the military should not be held to the same standards of civil rights/discrimination issues as civilian life is.
But, people with such a view are outvoted in today’s liberal politically correct climate. We have to have homosexuals in the military, we’re moving towards “trans” whatever peoples serving, and then the moves for women in positions formerly reserved for men.
I hope to God we don’t have to fight another war of the magnitude of World War II with today’s military establishment.
"reports began to surface that when she was captured she had fought to the end, shooting at her attackers."
Unlike another POW we know all to well, who was captured with a full pistol magazine.
Yup
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Not surprising a male homosexual would not value females' safety at all. They mean nothing to him, he does not connect as a normal male does.
I believe Lynch was unconscious or her gun had jammed when she was captured.
Its been kept pretty quiet what actually happened to her once captured but from what I’ve read it was brutal.
They tried to make her a poster girl for women in combat, which brought her a lot of unnecessary attention I think. Interesting that she is haunted by the death of her female friend, but maybe not so much by her male comrades. It definitely sounds like the Iraqi doctors butchered her. All those corrective surgeries by themselves would be a nightmare.
I went to school with a girl whose family eventually escaped Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge in the 70s. The events from the forced evacuation of Phenom Pehn through their exodus still haunt her.
A lot of work has been done with breathing techniques to purge stuck emotional trauma - basically PTSD but from whatever cause. It used to be called "rebirthing," then it was called "circular breathing," and then it moved into more scholarly efforts that, to my knowledge, never really named it other than its physiological effect. I suggest doing some research on it.
When I tried it, long ago, it consisted of laying down, pulling in a full breath, and letting it drop out by itself. Then repeat. You don't wait between breaths, that's why it's "connected." You won't hyperventilate if you don't force the air out - you just pull it in, and let it go.
What happens to you while you do this kind of breathing is pretty amazing. Imagine a film on fast forward, except the film is emotions connected to the memories. It speeds by so fast that other than a rush of generalized feelings, you don't get nailed by anything in particular. And, of course, if it gets too intense, you just stop doing it. And it involves no drugs, beliefs, or anything else.
It helps to have someone calm with you, preferably who has done it themselves. But another person helps if something deep comes up, to remind you to just keep doing the breathing and let it flow through and out, and not hold on to it.
All I can say is that it's remarkable. And it's so effective, it wouldn't surprise me a bit if it "went out of fashion" for research grants once antidepressants were developed, for simply monetary reasons - do this and you won't need any antidepressants.
Also, IIRC your body only releases small "packages" at any one time. So you start the breathing, "process" a "package" of "stuck emotions," and then you can stop - usually in a mild state of bliss. And it's not dangerous in any way, you're just calmly breathing in a connected pattern, pull in, let out, pull in, let out... that's it. And the emotional release effects are permanent, because what's coming up (and out) are the original trauma patterns of energy.
I recommend it.
Sorry you went thru that. Can’t begin to imagine the trauma. Hope you’re healing.
“I went to school with a girl whose family eventually escaped Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge in the 70s. The events from the forced evacuation of Phenom Pehn through their exodus still haunts her”
The lady whom works one of the many local Donut shops told me about literally running into the jungle when the Khamer Rouge entered her village. She was very fortunate, the entire family survived and later made it to the USA. She works like a dog, litterly 7 days a week, 10 hours a day, for the Korean owner. But she lives the American dream, her Daughter is about to become an RN, and her son is entering College. She once told me something that almost had me in tears “I’d rather be here working like a slave than be anywhere else”
I have always felt a degree of sympathy for her. She and others like her should not have been in combat, but she was.
But the despicable Left wanted to use her (as you described) as a poster girl.
From all I have seen, at no time has she maintained she did anything at all unusual. Her celebrity, as much as she shunned it, was a complete fabrication by the left, colluded with by liberal military leaders.
The used her as a tool with not thought for her personal or mental well being.
They should all be horsewhipped.
Interesting technique. It seems to me to be a physical and mental *exhaling*.
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