@kida @kidb: this is a great undertaking and it is shaping up tremendously. I have the urge to resteem every post but I will space them out, for the meal, although wholesome and healing, contains elements that most will - for the reasons you state - find hard to digest.

Re "ways in which our culture invites survivors to re-enforce their spin programming unconsciously in everyday life": I have the image of repetition, circularity, reinforcement of the kind you get in MSM news cycles; statements from politicians; the layout of a school or working life with it's round of 'holidays' and 'chores' that seem to promise that it will be different/better next time but in fact is just more of the same....until eventually, resignation and cynicism cloud the everyday to the extent that the doors to these hidden rooms remain buried under thinly-masked despair and one is battered about by the swings of the 'survival' state and acutely susceptible to all sorts of triggers. The 'chaos' of thought is itself a process of going round and round and round...........

One (rarest of rare :) typo spotted: "anti-anti-nausea".