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Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder
Sekou Mims, M.Ed., MSW
Larry Higginbottom, MSW, LCSW
Omar Reid, Psy.D
Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder What is PTSD?
Sekou Mims, M.Ed., MSW
What is PTSD and How Does it Relate to PTSlaveryD?
According to the DSM-IV, the essential feature of PTSD is the characteristic symptoms following exposure to an extreme traumatic stressor with direct personal experience of an event that involves actual or threatened death or serious injury, or other threat to one’s physical integrity; or witnessing an event that involves death, injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of another person; or learning about unexpected or violent death, serious harm, or threat of death or injury experienced by a family member or other close associate.
What is PTSlaveryD and How Does it Relate to PTSD?
PTSlaveryD is not described in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. PTSlaveryD is a non-traditional model discovered, defined and used by Pyramid Builders for relative and comparative diagnoses of the hundreds of clients seen across our social work spectrum. Based on our client success rate, Pyramid Builders, Inc. has decided to create a curriculum manual for social workers and other human service professionals to use while addressing specific issues as defined by Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder.
Comparative Disorders Post Traumatic Stress
Re-experiencing
Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive Images
Anxiety
Anger
Increased Activity
Aggression
Physiological reactivity to trauma reminders
Flashbacks Nightmares
Avoidance
Amnesia for trauma derealization/ depersonalization
Emotional numbing Isolation of affect
Avoidance of trauma-related situations
Sensory numbing
Complex activities in dissociates states
Mode
Cognitive
Affective
Behavioral
Physiological
Multiple Modes
Comparative Disorders Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder
Symptoms
Re-experiencing
Avoidance
Depression
Aggression
Semi-consciousness
Trying to prove to others your value.
Not wanting to talk about your history, esp. slave history.
Dis-Unity
Identity/self-esteem
Cognitive
Spiritual
Relational
behavioral Mode
Behavioral
Physiological
Affective
Reaction/Results/Responses
Effects on the Individual
Substance Abuse
Violence
Low Self-Esteem
Fear of Individualism
Avoidance
Identity
Schizoid Character
Spiritual Blocks
Effects on the Family
Minimal Participation
Breakup of the family
Loss of income/culture
Recurring abuse/violence
Slave History vs. Black History
Black history in America is slave history not the beginning of Black history.
Black history as most of you, know began at the beginning of human life on earth.
The slave ship was designed for dis-unity
The accumulation of low self-esteem within young people comes from a lack of exposure to their full history and culture, from the beginning, where they can gain pride.
The African Holocaust
Any trauma victim does not like to be reminded of the trauma that he or she has experienced. Any trauma victim has a tendency to avoid anything that reminds him or her of the trauma. Avoidance is one of the symptoms of PTSD. It has generally been my experience when presenting the history of the 'African Holocaust' to Black People the majority of them will say “I don’t want to here that slave __hit, can't we just move on?” I usually reply by stating “Yes, but not until we get rid of the shackles that are impairing our process to move on successfully; we must face the past in order to rid ourselves of the current traumas.”
A History at War with Economics Introduction to Willie Lynch part I
1. Terror: “take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining niggers, the females, and the nigger infants, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers.”
Willie Lynch, 1712
“Lets Make a Slave”
A History at War with Economics Introduction to Willie Lynch part II 2. Fear: “The next step is to take a bull whip and beat another nigger male to the point of death in front of the females and the infants. Don’t kill him, but put the fear of god in him for he can be useful for future breeding.”
Willie Lynch, 1712
“Lets Make a Slave”
Physical Terrorism Was Used to Breed Mental Terrorism
It was important to have all witness this brutality to create a constant visual and thereby mental frame of reference about the atrocities that would be released upon any individual who dared to challenge the system of slavery.
One group of people were pitted against another mentally, physically and spiritually for the benefit of plantation owners who wanted to keep all of the money they made for themselves.
It is a variety of the residual effects of this mental terrorism on the descendants of enslaved Africans that we are defining 383 years later as Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder.
A Summary of PTSlaveryD
Those who wanted us to have little self-worth so that they could pay us no wages and then few wages defined and explained us as a people, our history and conditions for their own economic benefit.
What has been most difficult to overcome is that after so many years of such negative and berating advertising and propaganda, everyone, including us the victims of this slander have come to believe those definitions and that is what we are trying to overcome by treating PTSlaveryD.
Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder Shattering the Veil of “Mentalcide”
Larry Higginbottom, MSW, LCSW
“Mentalcide:” Losing Culture & Knowledge
The beginnings of "Mentalcide" started when African people could no longer interact with their families and friends using their language(s), customs, values, norms, beliefs, rituals etc. That period lasted from 1619 until approximately 1865, or 246 years.
The second developmental stage of "Mentalcide," occurred from 1865 until about 1965, or 100 years of what I have come to refer as (US Apartheid) the Jim Crow laws and the Black Codes. The environment Blacks were confronted with when the legalization of slavery ended did not end the process of a developing social "Mentalcide," it caused a festering and growth.
Defining “Mentalcide” Destruction of Our Own Self-Development
Inclusion in Democracy 37
Years 1965-2002 Apartheid
Jim Crowism 100
Years 1865-1965 Slave Conditioning 246 Years 1619-1865
“Mentalcide” will develop when an individual has been estranged from thinking clearly, coherently and independently due to extreme psychological, physical and emotional violence. Prolonged exposure to these conditions will also produce an alienation to knowledge, information or learning
“Mentalcide:” A Veil of Perception
"Mentalcide" has three modalities:
1) a brainwashing that allows one human being to abuse another either mildly or extremely;
2) a visualization by one human being seeing different human beings as other than human;
3) and an effort on behalf of human beings to become something other than who they are to protect themselves.
“Mentalcide” as Homicide and Suicide
Mental Homicide: is as though a veil has covered the eyes of the afflicted and they can only see what is on the veil. The afflicted person believes what they see to the extent that they will kill another to justify the veil. The act of killing another because of this veil is what we have deemed mental homicide. Mental Suicide: the afflicted make themselves as small/insignificant as possible: a tall/large, brilliant, Black man will become small, and un-intimidating he will smoke, drink, do drugs, dress down, hunch his shoulders, be unkempt, and uneducated. A striking, Black woman will become insignificant by dressing and acting like a sexual object rather than a competitive intelligent person.
Definition of Healthy Mental State One’s Ability to Construct Their Own Self-Development
A persons ability to capitalize on their own knowledge, information and learning comes from a healthy mental state of being. When a person has a healthy mental state of being they are able to think clearly, coherently and independently on behalf of their own personal development as well as that of their family and community.
Mentalcide: a Conceptual Reference A Veil Created by Slavery and Transferred from Generation to Generation by Institutions of Mass Media
Institutions to control the image of the black race via stereotypes, many have not changed in 300 years, chattel images are still in place effecting us today.
22-year-old Amadou Diallo, described by his family as a devout Muslim who had never been in trouble with the law, died in February, 1999 in a hail of 41 bullets fired by 4 white police officers while he stood in his own doorway.
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