trying to keep moments of weakness and furtive tears to a minimum.
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
Only very few realized that. Shamefacedly some confessed occasionally that they had wept,
like the comrade who answered my question of how he had gotten over his edema, by confessing, “I have wept it out of my system.”
The tender beginnings of a psychotherapy or psychohygiene were, when they were possible at all in the camp, either individual or collective in nature.
The individual psychotherapeutic attempts were often a kind of “lifesaving procedure.”
These efforts were usually concerned with the prevention of suicides.
A very strict camp ruling forbade any efforts to save a man who attempted suicide.
It was forbidden, for example, to cut down a man who was trying to hang himself.
Therefore, it was all important to prevent these attempts from occurring.
I remember two cases of would-be suicide, which bore a striking similarity to each other.
Both men had talked of their intentions to commit suicide.
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