Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds
ميليسا والكر: الفن يمكنه أن يشفي الجراح الخفية لإضطراب مابعد الصدمة
Melissa Walker helps military service members recover from traumatic brain injury and mental illness. Full bio
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military service member
رفيع المنصب
are exploding all around you.
ينفجرمن حولك.
through the dust and the smoke,
عبر الغبار والدخان،
to process what has just happened.
معالجة ما حدث للتو.
multiple times a day and in your sleep.
عدة مرات في اليوم وحتى في نومك.
for fear of losing your job
خوفاً من فقد وظيفتك
to see the face
أن ترى وجه
as post-traumatic stress disorder
post-traumatic stress disorder,
لدي اضطراب مابعد الصدمة،
my grandparents every summer.
كنت أزور أجدادي كل صيف.
of combat on the psyche.
النفسية للقتال.
as a Marine in the Korean War,
كجندي بحرية في الحرب الكورية،
and rendered him unable to cry out.
وجعلته عاجز عن الصراخ.
physical wounds had healed
وبعد شفاء جروحه الجسدية
experiences in waking life.
في حياة اليقظة.
shouting obscenities
يصرخ بالشتائم
as I entered the room,
بينما أدخل غرفته,
have the tools to guide him.
for my grandfather's condition
في مجال العلاج عن طريق الفن.
towards the study of trauma.
about post-traumatic stress disorder,
عن اضطراب مابعد الصدمة ،
who suffered like my grandfather
الذين عانوا ككجدي
for post-traumatic stress
لاضطراب مابعد الصدمة
a new war was raging,
كانت تندلع حرب جديدة
and military vehicles,
والأليات العسكرية,
blast injuries they wouldn't have before.
لم يكونوا سيتمكنوا من تفاديها سابقاً
were reaching new levels,
تصل لمستويات جديدة,
and researchers
that traumatic brain injury, or TBI,
إصابات الدماغ أو TBI.
in technology and neuroimaging,
التصويري للأعصاب
an actual shutdown in the Broca's,
فعلي في منطقة بروكا
after an individual experiences trauma.
بعد مرور الفرد بصدمة.
العقلية
from their current duties,
الحالية،
of our servicemen and women.
لأفراد الجيش من الرجال والنساء.
about their experiences,
when I got my first job
عندما توليت وظيفتي الأولى
largest military medical center,
مركز طبي عسكري،
on a locked-in patient psychiatric unit,
في وحدة طبية نفسية مؤمنة،
Intrepid Center of Excellence, NICoE,
for active duty service members.
لتفعيل واجب خدمة الأفراد.
to convince service members,
a psychotherapeutic intervention a try.
كعلاج نفسي.
nothing short of spectacular.
by our servicemen and women,
رجال ونساء،
of art therapy bypasses
العلاج بالفن تتجاوز
areas of the brain that encode trauma.
المناطق الحسية التي تشفر الصدمة
to work through their experiences
صناعة الفن للتعامل مع تجاربهم
to their physical creations,
على إبداعاتهم المادية
and the right hemispheres of the brain.
الأيمن والأيسر.
with all forms of art --
مع كل أنواع الفن--
don't just have a name,
ليس لها اسم فقط
create these masks,
هذه الأقنعة,
literally, with their trauma.
شعورهم بالصدمة.
how often that enables them
and start to heal.
والبدء في الشفاء.
for one of my patients,
لأحد مرضاي،
of that haunting image.
يتخلص من الصور التي تتطارده.
for the service member,
صعبة على فرد الجيش،
to think of BFIB as the mask,
بتخيل الوجه الدموي كقناع،
and say, "Melissa, take care of him."
ميليسا,اعتني به"
to further contain him,
الوجه في صندوق لاحتواء أكبر له،
went to leave the NICoE,
didn't feel anxious.
is haunted by some traumatic memory,
ذكريات مؤلمة,
these disturbing images,
هذه الصور المزعجة،
على الإطلاق.
for thousands of years
to the power to destroy.
that the part of the brain
where healing happens too.
الذي يحدث فيه الشفاء أيضا.
how to make that connection.
impacted his treatment,
أثرت على علاجه،
You sort of just zone out into the mask.
أنت تشرد في القناع
after two days, I was like,
بعد يومين ، كنت كـ
here's the key, here's the puzzle,"
ها هو المفتاح ، ها هو اللغز"
my treatment just when out of sight,
بعيداً عن الأنظار،
Kurt, explain this, explain this.
اشرح هذا اشرح هذا.
openly to, like, anybody.
right now if I wanted to,
عنه إذا أردت ذلك،
من هذا الوجه الدامي
this process with my grandfather,
هذه العملية مع جدي،
service members heal,
في الحاضر والمستقبل على الشفاء,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Melissa Walker - Creative arts therapistMelissa Walker helps military service members recover from traumatic brain injury and mental illness.
Why you should listen
Melissa Walker is a creative arts therapist at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, a directorate of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She works with active duty service members suffering from traumatic brain injury and psychological health conditions.
Dedicated to helping recovering service members safely express their deep thoughts and emotions in a creative environment, Walker designed the Healing Arts Program at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence in 2010, where she engages her patients in mask-making, a powerful mechanism for helping them express their invisible wounds. Walker received her Master's Degree in art therapy from New York University.
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