What Israeli’s don’t see or hear
Over 1,000 Gazan children have lost a limb, either one or two legs and or an arm since October 7th, making an horrific statistic – on average of 10 per day – as reported by Save the Children, and that number is growing daily.
Source: Child amputees and Israel’s ‘unchilding’ reaches new depravity – Pearls and Irritations
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Such extremely chronic abuse and stress left unhindered readily results in the helpless child’s brain improperly developing. The emotional and/or psychological trauma acts as a starting point into a life in which the brain uncontrollably releases potentially damaging levels of inflammation-promoting stress hormones and chemicals, even in non-stressful daily routines.
It can amount to non-physical-impact brain-damage abuse: It has been described as a continuous, discomforting anticipation of ‘the other shoe dropping’ and simultaneously being scared of how badly you will deal with the upsetting event, which usually never transpires.
The lasting emotional/psychological pain from such trauma is very formidable yet invisibly confined to inside one’s head. It is solitarily suffered, unlike an openly visible physical disability or condition, which tends to elicit sympathy/empathy from others. It can make every day a mental ordeal, unless the turmoil is prescription and/or illicitly medicated. [To a significant degree, I know such self-medicating from personal experience.]
The wellbeing of ALL children should be of great importance to us all, regardless of whether we’re doing a great job with our own developing children. And a healthy future should be every child’s fundamental right, especially since they never asked to enter this very troubled world!
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