There, conspicuous in the light of the conflagration, lay the dead body of a woman__he white face turned upward, the hands thrown out and clutched full of grass, the clothing deranged, the long dark hair in tangles and full of clotted blood. The greater part of the forehead was torn away, and from the jagged hole the brain protruded, overflowing the temple, a frothy mass of gray, crowned with clusters of crimson bubbles__he work of a shell.The child moved his little hands, making wild, uncertain gestures. He uttered a series of inarticulate and indescribable cries__omething between the chattering of an ape and the gobbling of a turkey__ startling, soulless, unholy sound, the language of a devil. The child was a deaf mute.Then he stood motionless, with quivering lips, looking down upon the wreck.
Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world _ __ife is good,_ ____ safe,_ __eople are kind,_ __ can trust others,_ __he future is likely to be good_ _ and replaces them with feelings like __he world is dangerous,_ __ can__ win,_ __ can__ trust other people,_ or __here__ no hope.
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Unlike simple stress, trauma changes your view of your life and yourself. It shatters your most basic assumptions about yourself and your world _ __ife is good,_ ____ safe,_ __eople are kind,_ __ can trust others,_ __he future is likely to be good_ _ and replaces them with feelings like __he world is dangerous,_ __ can__ win,_ __ can__ trust other people,_ or __here__ no hope.
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