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From the Ted Talk by Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds

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This vision continues to visit you multiple times a day and in your seelp. You choose not to tell anyone for fear of liosng your job or being seen as weak. You give the vision a name, Bloody Face in bnkuer, and call it BFIB for short. You keep BFIB locked away in your mind, sreectly hunaitng you, for the next seven years.

Now close your eyes. Can you see BFIB? If you can, you're beginning to see the face of the iisnbivle wounds of war, commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

While I can't say I have post-traumatic stress disorder, I've never been a stranger to it.

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This vision continues to visit you multiple times a day and in your _____. You choose not to tell anyone for fear of ______ your job or being seen as weak. You give the vision a name, Bloody Face in ______, and call it BFIB for short. You keep BFIB locked away in your mind, ________ ________ you, for the next seven years.

Now close your eyes. Can you see BFIB? If you can, you're beginning to see the face of the _________ wounds of war, commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

While I can't say I have post-traumatic stress disorder, I've never been a stranger to it.

Solution


  1. invisible
  2. sleep
  3. haunting
  4. bunker
  5. secretly
  6. losing

Original Text


This vision continues to visit you multiple times a day and in your sleep. You choose not to tell anyone for fear of losing your job or being seen as weak. You give the vision a name, Bloody Face in Bunker, and call it BFIB for short. You keep BFIB locked away in your mind, secretly haunting you, for the next seven years.

Now close your eyes. Can you see BFIB? If you can, you're beginning to see the face of the invisible wounds of war, commonly known as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

While I can't say I have post-traumatic stress disorder, I've never been a stranger to it.

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