While the names of the three female hostages to be released by Hamas have been revealed, as part of the truce concluded with Israel, families hope to see their loved ones released detained in Gaza in the days that followed. Guest of RTL this Sunday, January 19, Marilyne Baranes, doctor in clinical psychology and specialist in post-traumatic syndrome, describes an unbearable wait.
“The families are in this anguish which is completely divisive. At the same time, I hope that my loved one will come out, and at the same time, I hope that he will not be part of from the list of dead“, she explains on RTL.
Marilyne Baranes specifies that we teach the families who will find their loved ones “to receive survivors who have remained in captivity for an extremely long time. They will be different from those they left. Probably physically, but especially psychologically.”
According to the specialist, being held hostage acts on the brain which is like “caught in an ice cube” and which loses its “flexibility and plasticity”. “They are there physically, but more psychologically. They can no longer feel. They can’t talk to you anymore. The words no longer have the same meaning. It’s extremely painful for someone who is traumatized,” she adds.
Long-term care in order to “secure” them and “put them in a feeling of well-being, while making them reason, so that the fear fades and fades. Then we’ll be able to make them sort through memories and get them to talk.”
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