Mental Health Support

(I am a retired mental health professional, 40 years clinical experience,
with a great deal of training in dream analysis and other projective testing methods.)

We see a young girl, who has no control over her situation, she
has been captured and being held against her will.

And sold like a piece of property, she will be subjected to horrific assaults.

It is all beyond her control, she is helpless and very frightened at the hands of ruthless villains.

This dream could reflect our current political reality, many of us are feeling helpless right now,
facing an unknown frightening future.

And/or this area could also be a combination of some childhood trauma, perhaps something at age 11.

The three healthy markers:

1. You put the trauma is a movie format, which means you are psychologically distancing
yourself from the trauma. You are not fully entering it and merging with it.
You are watching it from a distance. This is healthy.

2. Also good is that there is a mother figure trying to help you.
A mother figure is powerful, they are known to move heaven and earth to save their child.
The mother in your dream could represent you, you feel you can handle the situation
and save yourself. So good internal resources.

3. Also good there is an embassy which may help you. A strong symbol of help and rescue
in a foreign land. A safe haven with power. An external resource available to you?

A serious and disturbing trauma dream but you have hope for the future and
see powerful people who will help you. Or have powerful inner resources.
Perhaps you are not aware of them on a conscious level.

These are good coping techniques, you face danger but other people will help you,
or perhaps you know you can help yourself through this.

And you have optimism and hope for the future.

This dream was like a mini therapy session which you gave yourself.
A problem is present and you reassured yourself.

This is a more Freudian analysis, but if we go to a Jungian interpretation as one
person on the thread mentioned, it can take on another nuance.

This dream is a part of the collective unconscious, your dream has tapped into
what is going on in the ether right now. Fear and horror.

But the collective unconscious is optimistic that we will be rescued and given back
a normal life. Or that we will rescue ourselves.