Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds
Melissa Walker: Seni dapat menyembuhkan luka tak terlihat dari PTSD
Melissa Walker helps military service members recover from traumatic brain injury and mental illness. Full bio
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military service member
are exploding all around you.
di sekitar Anda.
through the dust and the smoke,
di antara debu dan asap,
membantu yang terluka
agak linglung karena ledakan,
to process what has just happened.
memahami apa yang baru saja terjadi.
multiple times a day and in your sleep.
dan dalam tidur Anda.
for fear of losing your job
karena takut kehilangan pekerjaan
jauh-jauh di pikiran Anda,
to see the face
as post-traumatic stress disorder
gangguan stress pasca-truma (PTSD)
post-traumatic stress disorder,
my grandparents every summer.
kakek dan nenek tiap musim panas.
of combat on the psyche.
efek perang terhadap kejiwaan.
as a Marine in the Korean War,
dalam Perang Korea,
and rendered him unable to cry out.
ia tak bisa memanggil minta tolong.
physical wounds had healed
setelah luka fisiknya sembuh
experiences in waking life.
ketika terjaga.
shouting obscenities
meneriakkan makian
as I entered the room,
ke kamarnya, saya akan memanggil dulu
atau membuatnya gelisah.
have the tools to guide him.
cara untuk membantunya.
for my grandfather's condition
kondisi kakek saya
dalam terapi seni,
towards the study of trauma.
pada studi mengenai trauma.
about post-traumatic stress disorder,
gangguan stress pasca-truma
who suffered like my grandfather
seperti kakek saya bermula.
for post-traumatic stress
stress pasca-trauma
a new war was raging,
perang baru sedang meletus,
and military vehicles,
dan kendaraan militer,
blast injuries they wouldn't have before.
yang sebelumnya tak terbayangkan.
were reaching new levels,
telah mencapai tingkatan baru,
and researchers
dan para peneliti
that traumatic brain injury, or TBI,
dampak TBI
in technology and neuroimaging,
dan pencitraan saraf,
an actual shutdown in the Broca's,
malfungsi pada area Broca,
proses bahasa dan kemampuan berbicara,
after an individual experiences trauma.
teror ketidakmampuan bicara,
kesehatan kejiwaan,
tidak dimengerti,
from their current duties,
tugas dan fungsi mereka,
of our servicemen and women.
di dalam diri para prajurit kita.
about their experiences,
pengalaman mereka
when I got my first job
saya mendapat pekerjaan pertama
largest military medical center,
pusat kesehatan militer nasional terbesar,
on a locked-in patient psychiatric unit,
di unit psikiatri untuk pasien terkurung,
Intrepid Center of Excellence, NICoE,
Intrepid Center of Excellence, NICoE,
for active duty service members.
pada tentara yang sedang bertugas.
to convince service members,
a psychotherapeutic intervention a try.
sebagai intervensi psikoterapi.
nothing short of spectacular.
by our servicemen and women,
pria maupun wanita,
sebuah kisah.
of art therapy bypasses
proses terapi seni memintas
areas of the brain that encode trauma.
yang sama dengan yang mengkode trauma.
to work through their experiences
untuk memahami pengalaman mereka
to their physical creations,
lewat karya nyata,
and the right hemispheres of the brain.
otak kiri dan otak kanan.
with all forms of art --
berhasil dengan segala jenis seni --
don't just have a name,
tak lagi hanya punya nama,
create these masks,
literally, with their trauma.
dengan trauma mereka.
how often that enables them
ini seringkali membantu mereka
and start to heal.
dan mulai pulih.
for one of my patients,
salah satu pasien saya,
of that haunting image.
gambaran yang menghantui itu.
for the service member,
sebagai topeng yang dibuatnya,
to think of BFIB as the mask,
and say, "Melissa, take care of him."
dan berkata, "Melissa, jaga dia."
to further contain him,
dalam kotak untuk menyimpannya,
went to leave the NICoE,
dia hanya melihat WBDB dua kali,
didn't feel anxious.
is haunted by some traumatic memory,
dihantui memori traumatis,
these disturbing images,
gambaran mengganggu tersebut.
hilang sama sekali.
for thousands of years
sejak ribuan tahun
to the power to destroy.
kekuatan untuk menghancurkan.
that the part of the brain
menunjukkan bagian otak
where healing happens too.
dimana pemulihan terjadi.
how to make that connection.
cara membuat hubungan itu.
impacted his treatment,
mempengaruhi pemulihannya,
You sort of just zone out into the mask.
dan fokus saja ke topeng itu,
itu menghilangkan halangannya
after two days, I was like,
setelah dua hari, saya seperti,
here's the key, here's the puzzle,"
ini kuncinya, ini teka-tekinya,"
my treatment just when out of sight,
pemulihan saya begitu cepat,
Kurt, explain this, explain this.
meminta saya menjelaskannya.
dalam 23 tahun
openly to, like, anybody.
secara terbuka pada siapapun,
right now if I wanted to,
sekarang jika saya mau,
selama 23 tahun secara bersamaan,
Selama lima tahun terakhir,
lebih dari 1.000 topeng.
this process with my grandfather,
dengan kakek saya,
service members heal,
di masa depan untuk pulih,
dari dalam diri mereka
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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