The Sunday Read: ‘The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape’
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- On Nov. 12, 1974, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s father’s childhood friend Jack Teich was kidnapped out of his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He was arriving home from work when two men forced him into their car at gunpoint and took him to a house where they chained and interrogated him.
On the second day of his kidnapping, Jack’s wife, Janet, received a call from someone demanding a ransom of $750,000, and a few days later, Janet and Jack’s brother Buddy dropped the money off at Penn Station under F.B.I. surveillance. The F.B.I. did not catch the kidnapper, but afterward, he decided to let Jack go.
Jack was home safe. He had survived his kidnapping. But the actual kidnapping is not what this story is about, if you can believe it. It’s about surviving what you survived, which is also known as the rest of your life.
I thought this was a really touching story. The lesson here is that trauma isn’t something that just goes away. You can’t ask yourself, “why can’t I just get over this traumatic event?” It’s learning how to live as the person that has been through something traumatic.
Trauma experiences are recorded in DNA of children of those went through the horror. Children of victims having gone through terrors of wars experience similar trauma memory as if they themselves went through them.
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Tory of patriotism: of gratitude for being born in the New York area, of being educated in elite universities, of working for an elite company, of having the resources to L thrive and pay for overcoming the trauma. Thank God for being born in I the USA?
Just goes to show you that therapy does nothing. This woman isn't the least bit healed.
I think that’s the point. You never fully heal from trauma. Dealing with it, however that is, becomes the rest of your life.
The more things change the more they stay the same
I'm traumatized by the number of times the author overused the word "I." "Jesus" as hinted by the nurse, meant she could harness a power greater than self to liberate herself from the "I" that ruminates trauma. The hive mind isn't always explicit.
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