A tendency to actively hide distressing personal information from others.
Creative children manage fears and problems by inventing and interacting with imaginary friends.
Witnessing a traumatic event and erasing it from your mind immediately after it occurs.
Children may exhibit behaviour that is developmentally younger than they are if they feel unloved or neglected.
When a child feels unable to communicate their distress or simply has no one to talk to they may seek more self-destructive solutions.
The repression of emotions to not appear weak or needy.
Chronic health problems cause feelings of helplessness; sick children will try to counter the lack of control by testing limits.
Emotional response to witnessing warzone violence can manifest itself in dreams.
Flowering Nights
There is a spark that keeps us driving out of highly stressful and traumatic experiences. “Flowering Nights” visualizes the unique survival methods of a child that emerge out this dire darkness.
