Fighting Injustice Can Trigger Trauma — We Need to Learn How to Process it and Take Healing Action [WagingNonViolence.org]

Jenna Quinn (PACEs Connection Staff) 8/18/201:15 PM

Written by Kazu Haga on August 18, 2020 from Waging Nonviolence

We are traumatized. Let’s start there.

Trauma can be defined as your body’s reaction to experiencing or witnessing something deeply disturbing. Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a condition caused by exposure to a distressing event “outside the range of usual human experience.”

A global pandemic. The resulting economic crisis. Videos of police killing unarmed Black people. Images of federal troops in military fatigues and assault rifles confronting protesters every night. The global climate crisis. The ever-increasing population of houseless people. Trump.

One could argue that none of these things are within the “range of usual human experience.”

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