With the women's protests in Iran, it is a particularly difficult time for Iranians, including those who may be far away from home.
While I haven’t been able to return to Iran due to my journalism and activism, I’ve been glued to my phone, waking up to photos of public hangings, lives taken, women raped and sexually assaulted in prison, kids as young as 10 years old being shot dead, and political prisoners on hunger strike. In reaction to this unyielding stream of horrible news, I rush to hear from my family and my friends who still live there.
As Samineh I. Shaheem, professor of psychology, told me, the psychological experience of those in the diaspora is nuanced. The sentiments we experience are not just happening here and now. She explained that when our “empathy neurons get overstimulated,” it can cause trapped or unconscious trauma to resurface, especially for those of us who have lived in Iran in the past and experienced similar protests or critical political moments.
For most of us, this sense of feeling helpless and hopeless doesn’t stop the moment we step out of our homes. It lingers on when we walk on the streets, take the subway to work, and enter the workplace. We show up dazed from hours of scrolling through social media. Every day, we learn new names of people who were killed or arrested and try to get the world to care.
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