Blunt About Trauma

“Jack was home safe. He had survived his kidnapping. But the actual kidnapping is not what this story is about, if you can believe it. It’s about surviving what you survived, which is also known as the rest of your life.” While we’re on the topic of life traumas and just how long they can impact you, here’s an amazing piece by Taffy Brodesser-Akner in the NYT Mag (Gift Article): The Kidnapping I Can’t Escape. “Happy, well-adjusted people are all different. The traumatized are exactly alike. I’m about to tell you a story that is nothing like a violent kidnapping — almost laughably so — but what I’ve learned over the years is that trauma is trauma. Something terrible happens, beyond what is in our own personal capacity to cope with, and the details don’t matter as much as the state we’re thrown into.” (As a writer, I feel traumatized by the quality of this article…)