Trauma - the search for a poisoned chalice?
Examines trauma's impact on humanitarian workers, contrasting their experiences with common trauma narratives, and argues for reframing trauma discourse to foster resilience and genuine growth without victimhood perspectives.
serning.comThis, my friends, is a traumatized time, generation, milieu, society, world … something like an age of trauma.’7
Though Marius’ healing was full of myth and drama, the key to resolving his trauma was in acknowledging and regaining his heritage as a competent, resourceful human being.
The victim narrative reflects a wider societal trend in which we’re all prone to seeing ourselves as the victims of circumstance and deserving of compensation or reward for our suffering. Even when people have been victimized, if the narrative never moves beyond victimhood, it’s difficult for healing to occur.
If the trauma is severe enough, a person may lose the capacity to concentrate on necessary goals. If that happens, the self is no longer in control. If the impairment is very severe, consciousness becomes random, and the person “loses his mind”—the various symptoms of mental disease take over. In less severe cases the threatened self survives, but
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