Comments on: Making Sense of the Impossible: a trauma story, part I https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:25:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-528 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:10:12 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-528 Thanks for your comment, Adam. It’s so true that his “disappointing qualities” did help save his life. Being an outsider and rebellious can have great benefits. At the same time, those qualities that were necessary for him to survive and save others’ lives were also very disruptive in our lives here, once they were no longer needed for survival. You’ll see more of that in part II…

]]> By: Adam Benson https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-527 Tue, 05 Jun 2018 14:16:02 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-527 Hi Blair,

Thank you for your blog and I look forward to hearing the rest of your story. Besides being moved by your grandfather’s story of strength and resilience, I am struck and amazed that the same characteristics that were experienced as potentially negative ended up being those that helped save him and his family. Beautiful and awesome.

]]> By: Alan Levine https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-526 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 18:43:07 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-526 Blair : I read your article about your grandparents – I thought it was terrific. I hope that everyone who shares this experience is also able to share this article. Thanks. Alan Levine.

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-525 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:09:45 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-525 Helen, that is a devastating story. Thank you for sharing!

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-524 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:04:39 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-524 Thank you, Vanessa! There are so many unanswerable questions but it is part of my journey to understand those ripples. My grandparents traumas were just “normal” for all of us who grew up around them, and shaped who I am as a person.
Part 2 will shed some light on that!
Blair

]]> By: Helen Nemes https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-523 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 15:04:53 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-523 My parents were hidden which was rare by a family that they gave their house to and my brother, a child survivor, was hidden in another place and saw a brother of ours get shot as a child.

]]> By: Vanessa Lopez https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-522 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:48:13 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-522 Beautifully told, and written. It is hard to know why some have such depth of resilience. It is hard to know who will be able to survive and then thrive with such suffering, to then leave generations to deal with the ripples of these traumas. And so scary to know that we might be so close to it recurring. Thanks for sharing your story Blair. Looking forward to part 2.

Vanessa

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-521 Mon, 04 Jun 2018 02:16:11 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-521 Thank you Helen. So many of us have stories to tell. I hope you tell yours! It is impossible to imagine what so many of the survivors went through.

]]> By: Helen Nemes https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-520 Sun, 03 Jun 2018 22:45:45 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-520 I was very touched. My parents were holocaust survivors from Poland who were hidden. They did not talk about it. I am amazed in retrospect about their resilience.

]]> By: Blair Casdin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/making-sense-impossible-part-i/#comment-519 Sat, 02 Jun 2018 23:52:16 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=7190#comment-519 That’s a great question, Lucia! I wish Pop were still alive to answer it! It must have been a bit of both–fear and fearlessness. And I also find strength in thinking about how much my family had to go through to get here and rebuild their lives after losing so much. Thank you so much for reading and commenting! Blair

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