Terror Victims' Depression

Depression is always unbearable, but the depression that plagues the victims of terror is undoubtedly the worst kind, since their sadness cannot ever disappear, and the damage caused in their psychic sphere is so great that their psychic health is irrecoverable.

When we talk about terror we mean murder, rape, betrayal, violent attack, and many other horrible events that annihilate their victims with cruelty. They are very common in many communities of this world, and their danger threatens everyone else the same way because this is an open world.

In these cases, long-term psychotherapy is required and usually it is unable to completely solve the victims' problems, since their fear never completely disappears. They become invalid, as if they have lost a part of their organism. However, the internal damage is even worse, and the solution is difficult to find.

How can we cure all the victims of cruel and violent attacks? How can we cure someone who was betrayed by those he or she trusted the most? What about the soldiers who had to fight and kill innocent people for the crazy ideals of their leaders, which were more important than human lives? There are many examples of terror victims in this world.

Their depression is greater than the obvious consequence of the despair they experience in their lives and where they are imprisoned forever. Those that never experienced such profound despair cannot understand what it means to die in this manner and yet to be obliged to continue living after such a death. This depression has no possible psychotherapy: it is a chronic depression because it is the normal consequence of a brutal action, just like the automatic responses of our inherited mechanisms.

However, these brutal actions take place everywhere in our planet... Terror statistics are a daily fact, especially atrocities committed against children, who are still weak, vulnerable and unaware and thus cannot defend themselves.