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How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me
- It’s important to remember that suffering is relative. Nothing determines what real suffering is except your mind; there is no other test. Sometimes you might feel as if you don’t have a right to call your suffering “suffering”, because you’re not a former child soldier, and you aren’t in extreme poverty. That’s not how it works. Relatively privile... See more
from How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me by Sasha Chapin
Stuart Evans added 1y ago
- No matter who you are, there are experiences and emotions that can fuck you up a bit—enough that you don’t want to think of them, enough that they’re marked as off-limits in your consciousness. They’re humiliating, intensely tragic, too much to take. They are not part of the self-image you’d like to have, the unblemished, heroic version of you that... See more
from How I Wish Trauma Had Been Explained to Me by Sasha Chapin
Stuart Evans added 1y ago