Yolanda Gampel utilizes an expanded concept of the "uncanny" to outline the results of violence: Those who experience such traumas are faced with an unbelievable and unreal reality that is incompatible with anything they knew previously. As a result, they can no longer fully believe what they see with their own eyes; they have difficulty distinguishing between the unreal reality they have survived and the fears that spring from their own imagination.
Nicole Waller, Contradictory Violence: Revolution and Subversion in the Caribbean
denial, derealization, disbelief, ptsd, self-doubt, trauma-memories, traumatic-experiences, traumatized, unreal