emotional support trauma plot
Traumatized people are left with an experience of “singularity” that creates a divide between their experience and the consensual reality of others.
Mark Epstein • The Trauma of Everyday Life
Why do she and her family need to be understood or explained to anyone else?
Paul Tremblay • The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel
Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community—often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lose patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narrativ
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
One thing I’ve also noticed is the gradual loss of the understanding of “imagination” as a category; it can sound a little Reading Rainbow to talk about, but wouldn’t you know imagination is actually an essential part of the human condition. In so far as the words “spirit” or “spirituality” mean anything beyond woo-woo or cliché they must include t... See more
John Ganz • Why Culture Sucks
For this is the strange thing about a vulnerability that remains unseen by others, an illness that is unacknowledged by society. It is the sick person whose worldview warps, the wounded one who absorbs the idea that the most indelible aspect of her present condition is in fact a defect, a distortion of her own making.