Countries Members are From

Started by Kizzie, August 01, 2020, 06:01:53 PM

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Kizzie

        • Albania
        • Amman
        • Angola
        • Argentina
        • Australia
        • Austria
        • Bahamas
        • Bahrain
        • Belgium
        • Bermuda
        • Bulgaria
        • Brazil
        • Canada
        • Chile
        • Columbia
        • Costa Rica
        • Cyprus
        • Czech Republic
        • Denmark
        • Egypt
        • Finland
        • France
        • Guatemala
        • Germany
        • Ghana
        • Greece
        • Guersey
        • Hong Kong, China
        • Hungary
        • Iceland
        • India
        • Indonesia
        • Ireland
        • Israel
        • Italy
        • Japan
        • Jersey
        • Jordan
        • Kenya
        • Korea (South)
        • Latvia
        • Lithuania
        • Luxemburg
        • Macedonia
        • Madagascar
        • Malaysia
        • Malta
        • Mexico
        • Morocco
        • Nepal
        • Netherlands
        • New Zealand
        • Nigeria
        • Norway
        • Pakistan
        • Panama
        • Peru
        • Philippines
        • Poland
        • Puerto Rico
        • Portugal
        • Qatar
        • Romania
        • Serbia
        • Singapore
        • Slovakia
        • Slovenia
        • South Africa
        • South Korea
        • Spain
        • Sweden
        • Switzerland
        • Syria
        • Thailand
        • Trinidad and Tobago
        • Turkey
        • Uganda
        • Ukraine
        • United Arab Emerites
        • United Kingdom
        • United States
        • Vietnam

If your country isn't on the list and you are a member, let me know and I'll add it. (PM Kizzie or email me at l.herod@yahoo.ca)

Kizzie

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Out of the Storm (OOTS) is a community of complex relational trauma survivors from around the world

82 countries & over 11900+ registrations since August 2014

The number of countries and registrations at OOTS speak to the fact that relational trauma is an unacknowledged global pandemic. A major part of why this is so is likely because complex relational abuse/neglect happens behind closed doors and survivors learn to keep silent due to shame and fear. Despite being hidden though, societies are well aware that it happens. We need to ask then why this is so.  Why is it that governments, societies, justice and health systems and the public don't do enough to acknowledge that complex relational trauma is rampant. Why isn't there enough action to bring this trauma out into the light and work to prevent it, intervene to stop it, and to end the lack of acknowledgement and chronic underfunding of treatment, services and support for survivors?

Perhaps one reason is as Dr. Judith Herman who was the first clinician to propose the diagnosis of Complex PTSD in the 1990s writes:

It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator.  All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see, hear, and speak no evil.  The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain.  The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering. (Trauma and Recovery, 2015)

That is, not acknowledging relational trauma means no-one at any level has to engage and take action because it is unthinkable, messy, painful and costly.  As we know all too well at OOTS however, the cost of doing little or nothing is high; from the money spent on treating the physical illnesses and disease caused by complex trauma, to the lasting and debilitating symptoms that impact survivors and their families, friends and communities, and their education and workplace.

Much more needs to be done to stem what is a 'behind closed doors' public health crisis.