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Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/20/trauma-trust-and-triumph-psychiatrist-bessel-van-der-kolk-on-how-to-recover-from-our-deepest-pain Collective trauma is complicated. Taboo is a core component of PTSD. The brain buries feelings only if they can’t be spoken about, because of the risk of alienation, from a family (this is particularly relevant to abused children) or from society (this is what silences veterans). Large, shared events – 9/11, for instance – which are not suppressed, which in fact bring those affected together, do not leave the same scars.

‘’Collective trauma is complicated. Taboo is a core component of PTSD. The brain buries feelings only if they can’t be spoken about, because of the risk of alienation, from a family (this is particularly relevant to abused children) or from society (this is what silences veterans)..’-’Zoe Williams, 20.09.21 Trauma, trust and triumph: psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk on how to recover from our deepest pain-

As an example, the pandemic in the past years 2020 and 2021 have affected the world at different levels societal, economically, emotionally. Other societies and countries were more affected. I saw

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