Post-traumatic stress
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
Post-traumatic stress
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS
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Chapter 8: Post-traumatic stress

Trembling, cold sweats, hallucinations, anorexia, vomiting, dizziness, prostration, nightmares, insomnia... these are the most common symptoms endured by the young people welcomed by LIMBO. Living is not enough, you have to survive: the violence of the past persists even in the life after. Hervé was left for dead on a path in the DRC. Now a student at the Sorbonne, he is regularly caught up in his nightmares.

 

I DON'T BELIEVE IT
Text Hervé and Chérif, music Mathias Duplessy

Fendo miti puno – Since I got out
Kuan gal an gal ko ma io – Of the sea
Hi lan gi la – I’m still dizzy​
Hi lan gi la – I’m still dizzy​
 
Benda​ nazua​ bosomi​ – ​Since I am free
Na lalaka te – I don’t sleep
Ba ​landaka​ nga​ – And I dream 
Tango ​nioso​ –​ That I’m still being chased

Si ​mi ​walike ​– ​When I lie down 
Hi kidi mbo – The bed rocks 
Wama io – Like on the sea 
Wama io – Like on the sea

Lelo ​na ​bomoyi​ – Today I’m alive
Kasi ​n’esengo​ te​ – But my heart is crying​​​​​
Pona mboka nga – My country is burning
Muana mawa – And I’m burning with sadness

I'm standing, but I'm dizzy
I am here and I am there
I am the past, I am the future 

I'm here, and I'm not here
I don't believe it

I'm standing, but I'm dizzy
I am here and I am still there
I am energy, I am pain

I'm alive and I don't believe it
I don't believe it