Hi Jose,
This is my first post to this site, and this area is an area of concern for me personally. I have wrestled with what to say here, with tears in my eyes as I struggle to say what I want, yet also fear that I might say something that gets me permanently banned. Please understand my posting is not intended to insult or offend anyone.
I personally struggle with the medicalization of my experience of pain and suffering. I feel obliged to object to being subjegated to only being seen or understood from a medical model point of view. A view which promotes the internalization of my problem, and the subjegation of me as a person to being a disorder. I can assure you and others that I am far more complex than being given a label that may (and I might emphasize only maybe and not for certain) allow me to receive help for my struggles. This then for me is a barrier that makes seeking help more difficult.
This online forum in one way helps me to overcome such subjugation and internalization by allowing me to maintain my anonymity while interacting here. It seems to me the experience of trauma is one which dominates a persons (my) experience and identity, and that parallel is why I comment on the importance of not allowing me to be subjugated (dominated) by the medical model.
As a free and equal person we may walk together for a while, and I may be healed, or I may not, but here is to hoping it will be so.