Question well more of like for help here
TW:(just in case someone reasons this I don't think you'll exactly be disturbed but still) torture human trafficking
It's mainly just summarized since I'm asking a question
I have OCS specifically 3 of them who end up in a Russian human trafficking facility posting as a medical hospital underneath that is human experimentation lab
Prison black market thing ...
During their time there which is an extent to six months before their family+friends come to save them (it'll make more sense just keep reading)
mind you there's no red line that the guards can not cross with them they might as well just be rag doll's
Audrey-endures SA beatings and is eventually sold to the lab downstairs underneath the prison which is underneath the hospital
Caleb-suffers physically from the guards and is often brought up to the hospital upstairs due to the extent of his injuries he is also SA'd more of gr00ped gr0aped idk how to spell
James-suffers mentally rather than physically
Basically he can't be harmed physically due to orders but still has to take the horrors in mentally exp. seeing Caleb get hit seeing Audrey+Caleb getting thrown back in (after assults)
listing to screams from either of them etc
These guys are 17-18 years old
America is dead besides 40 other survivors consisting of their friend group and the groups parents +siblings there in a bunker btw
There's 11 family's total
But it's just the three that I stated earlier that are actually in the trafficking facility
Do you have any websites by chance on where you get you're information from...for like phycology effects on torture and what happens to the human phycie?
If not that then can you give me some tips on how to represent their trauma properly without going into fiction...or misrepresenting what they're going through
Audrey is the only one who knows some broken Russian she can kinda understand the guards and she doesn't know how to read Russian
Caleb and James don't speak Russian nor can they read...
Guards only speak Russian and often mock them in Russian they can speak English..somewhat to about what they learn in like school
Audrey is sold around the end of the 4 month
September-march is how long their in captive for
And again there is no lines they can not cross they have free will over them weather it's sxual
They just can't kill them.
They are brought up to the hospital segment at the beginning the month and the end of the month
If you wanna write something you can
To be honest I think that'd help me out a bit more...but websites or just facts or whatever you know of that'd be a great help ^^
Thank you for reading this
Hello! Thank you for stopping by to ask about the process and for help! That's so brave :D
Ok, so you have some really, really good questions about how to write and portray trauma *accurately*. And that is absolutely wonderful. So for how I get my sources, I am going to very carefully try to share without revealing for privacy reasons (you can dm if it's too vague)I.....I work in a field that deals directly survivors of all types of trauma. I have 3 (well I guess technically 4 degrees) and two (three) of them are in the field of psychology. So the reason I know a lot is I have studied a lot and I work in this field. No, I don't draw directly from other people's experiences, but I do think that because this is an area of minor expertise (my credentials might say more than minor, but I don't like saying I'm an expert in anything) I have a better understanding of what something looks like and feels like.
I also am someone who has been on the receiving end of many types of trauma treatment (yeah C-PTSD), so I also know what it feels like directly. Do I draw from my own experiences in how I think and feel in the moment? Absolutely. Do I also use my writing to process my own traumatized feelings? Yep. But who doesn't?
As for recommendations, the books I would recommend are written for people in the field so they're filled with a lot of jargon that won't make sense to a lay person (sadly). There are some books I utilize in my work that have sections for me to read and sections for the person I am working with to read, but those are also kind of heavy reads. I know The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk is a very popular book and is very popularly bashed (I have mixed feelings about the bashing because its written as a book for clinicians not lay people), but it is a worthwhile read, but know it is written for clinicians. I could go on and on about books written by academics, but I don't know if that would help. Bessel's work, Pat Ogden's work, Porges' work, Siegel's work, Levine's work, all of them influence how I think about trauma, and many more (these are probably the best known academics). I also had a professor in college who was the world's leading expert in torture (he also had a psychotic break during our class, and I was the only one who noticed for a couple of months, but that's a story for another day).
This probably doesn't answer your questions at all and I'm really sorry. What I would say is to be very careful if you are going into DID territory only because it's so terribly portrayed in the media and vastly misunderstood by a majority of clinicians as well. True DID (versus other dissociative disorders and other mental health experiences), in my experience, is very rare and feels very different when working with that person. I don't have a good way to describe a lot of this work as it's a feelings thing that I don't have words for. I can tell you the science and characteristics behind mental health experiences and tell you which therapies produce the best outcomes, but I can't tell you about the intuitive part because that's beyond words. And unfortunately I don't know if that can be taught. (IF someone knows if it can, please tell me!!)
Sorry for the long winded not helpful answer. Please, DM me if you want to talk more freely.
