Miss Tate sexually abused Antwone when she was a child and not about what happened. From the dialogue it can be seen that what traumatizes him is sexual abuse. His foster mother, Miss Tate, sexually abuses him when he was a child and Antwone Fisher admits he had a bad memory when he was a child.
Eventually, Antwone Fisher must face sexual abuse at the hands of his adoptive mother, Mrs. From the dialogue above it can be seen that Antwone is uncomfortable with what happened to him as a child. From the quote above it can be seen that Antwone Fisher as a therapy patient tells his psychiatrist what happens to him and Mrs.
Eventually, Antwone Fisher suffers physical abuse at the hands of her foster mother, Mrs.
Verbal Abuse
Although verbal abuse does not leave bruises, verbal abuse can be as harmful to a person's health as physical abuse. Antwone said that he received a lot of verbal abuse from his foster mother and that he could not do anything because he was a child and had no power over her. In fact, as a victim of verbal abuse, Antwone believes that he is as useless as white children.
For those who experience verbal abuse it can often be overlooked because verbal attacks are felt. Antwone said he received a lot of verbal abuse not only from his foster mother but also from his colleague in the Navy. His colleague who verbally abused is the person with white skin and their positions are higher than him.
The above situation shows that Antwone is a victim of verbal abuse not only in his home but also in the work environment. He has been verbally abusive since childhood until now when he works in the Navy. The person targeted by verbal abuse may succumb to any stress-related illness over time.
In fact, it is not uncommon for a victim of verbal abuse to feel inadequate, stupid, and worthless. This feeling is the effect because he was verbally abused by his foster mother. This shows that the effect of verbal abuse remains not only for the victims, but also for the accused.
The Effects of Trauma Experienced by Antwone Fisher
Anger
Antwon Fisher's childhood trauma leads him to become angry and emotional in no time. Remembering what happened in the past, Antwone suddenly feels emotional and can't control himself. The quote above occurs when Antwone and his colleague are in the bathroom taking a bath before going to work.
In this case, one of his colleagues named Berkley was in the bathroom too long, he was in the bathroom for ten minutes. One of his colleagues remembers Berkley spending a lot of time in the bathroom and he has to get out because the others are standing in line. All the men in the bathroom panic and they try to break up a fight.
The above quote happened on the ship when Antwone was alone and read his book. It happens when all the navy man on the ship go to the bar together including Antwone. While at the bar, Antwone was not seen as a man approaching or harassing a girl while others were harassing the girl.
Grayson angers Antwone by offering him a girlfriend, but Antwone actually has a girlfriend named Cheryl, who works in the Navy just like him. All of his colleagues in the bar, of course, tried to separate them from the fight again. As described earlier, Antwone tries to build his relationship with Cheryl, but at first Antwone is worried and doesn't know what to do with the woman.
Mood Swings
Davenport advises Antwone to learn to channel his anger and use his anger constructively. Whenever he advises Antwone, Antwone does not care or listen to what Mr. Actually his psychiatrist tells him the truth and helps him, but Antwone is still stuck and doesn't want to change.
Antwone cannot control his anger because every time he remembers his trauma, his anger will appear and affect his feeling. The agenda of healing today is to know what is causing Antwone to fight with other fleets. At the beginning, Antwone enters the psychiatric room with the usual expression, just as if nothing happened.
After all, his psychiatrist is asking him a lot of questions about why he fights with other naval men. His psychiatric feels irritated and he ends up at the healing ward today and asks Antwone to come back in the next healing ward. But Antwone says with his momentary word that he will not come and leave the room.
The feelings of shame that Fisher had developed in the previous phase not only increased, but also influenced the development of his feelings of guilt. Antwone has trigger points that cause him to be dissonant and the only way he knows how to deal with this dissonance within him is to respond the way he does by instantly changing his mood. Unresolved issues he still has to deal with and the shame that comes with it.
Anxiety
Because of these situations, Antwone felt the anxiety of the people around him that they would abandon him like his parents did. Jesse is the only friend who cares and helps Antwone through the dark side of his childhood. Sam judges that no one will stay by his side, that's why he feels such anxiety.
The quote above shows that Antwone really feels so bad because his fear comes true. Jesse is the only friend who saves him when Antwone was abused by his foster mother. Now Antwone feels empty, all alone, his friend was dead and now he was worried about his past.
Antwone feels anxiety that next maybe his friends will abandon him again and left him alone. He also feels that he is jealous of Jesse because he no longer needed to fight, but Antwone still has to fight with his past. Actually, Antwone was worried about Cheryl because he's never been with a woman and doesn't know what to do, so he figures out what to do so that Cheryl won't leave him.
The only experience he has with the girl is the one bad experience with Mrs. Davenport, which convinces him that he needs to build a better relationship with Cheryl and his trauma disappears. He began to have some hope that things could be different and that he was able to change his situation.
The Applying of Self-Defense Mechanism Concerning Repression And Displacement by Antwone Fisher to Reduce His Anxiety
Displacement
His father was dead and he never met him, and his mother left him in foster care, so he is. So he decided to join the navy like his father who is a sailor in Vietnam. He realizes that one day he will miss his parents and decides to do the same as his father in order to displace his anger and the feeling of missing his parents.
The only reason why Antwone joined the navy is because he missed his parents, actually his father. His biological mother left him when he was a child and his father died when his mother was pregnant. At birth, his father had died, his mother was a minor and in prison, and at that time there was no prospect of her being able to care for him.
He joined the Navy because it is the way to get rid of the feeling of missing his father. Davenport that as he joins the Navy, he hopes he will see his father's eyes and the way they shine. In this way, Antwone feels that he has a close bond with his father and every time he missed his father, he will push away the feeling to enjoy the situation in the Navy.
Moreover, he feels that he is so proud to wear the uniform and can imagine that his father will also be proud when he wears the uniform. After a miraculously short search, he found his paternal aunts and uncles, who then helped him find and finally meet his mother. The above quote shows that after meeting his biological mother, Antwone confesses his honest feeling to his mother.
Repression
He knew his mother neglected him, but he wonders if his mother misses him too. He was disappointed that his mother didn't care, even though he struggles to get that far to look for her. He then acts out the way to deal with his trauma and fear of being neglected by his mother again.
During this time, he represses his feeling of missing his mother by imagining that his mother was just around the next corner when he was on his way to school every day. But the way Antwone repressed is the right one because this circumstance makes him feel better than missing his mother all day. He doesn't want anyone to know about his trauma and he tries everything to hide it.
From the quote above, it can be seen that Antwone did a suppression to deal with his anxiety. In the first session, which does not begin until Antwone decides to speak, he tells Mr. Davenport about how his mother didn't come to claim him after release from prison and Antwone spends the first two years of his lie in an orphanage.
In the conversation above, it can be seen that Antwone does not want anyone to know about what happened to him in the past. This allows his bad things that happened in the past to be hidden from himself. Antwone again used this defense mechanism to deal with his mistake because in the first healing session Antwone did not answer Mr.