India, Oct. 23 -- Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has described its work supporting survivors of torture, extreme abuse, and complex trauma at the Comprehensive Care Center (known as the “CAI” in Spanish) in Mexico City, including migrants who have suffered violence in their countries of origin or during their journey. The account includes the experience of Tamara, a Honduran woman in Mexico whose name was changed to protect patient confidentiality.
The body remembers trauma
Tamara said she fled gangs in Honduras and was violently assaulted in Mexico. She said that during the attack she lay still for 15 minutes, playing dead to stop it, and later isolated herself, saying she could not talk to anyone and felt like “a...