Tag: captivity, complex-ptsd, dehumanization, dehumanize, held-captive, inhumane, no-longer-human, prisoners-of-war, self-respect, survivors-of-war, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, war, worthlessness

But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.