zaharaesque

Scherezade Siobhan is an Indo Rroma behavioural scientist, community catalyst and hack scribbler of 2 poetry collections - Bone Tongue (Thought Catalog Books, 2015), Father, Husband (Salopress, 2015) and 1 poetry pamphlet - to dhikr, i (Pyramid Editions, Forthcoming). She is the creator and curator of The Mira Project as well as the founder of Geniette. She can be found squeeing about militant bunnies at zaharaesque or @zaharaesque on twitter/facebook/ig.

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By zaharaesque • 7 years ago

The Good Survivor Myth

In my early 20s, as part of a training program in psychotherapy in India, I had the opportunity to sit through a series of observership cases with my guide/mentor who specializes in doing work with women and PTSD. Post one of the more harrowing sessions, the young girl we were consulting with waited back for some official papers that the psychiatrist had to hand over. It was quite late and we were the only two people in the waiting room.