7 Things I Wish People Understood About Living with PTSD
To be human is to know both joy and pain. Loss, suffering, grief, loneliness, and sadness are inescapable parts of the human condition that everyone experiences. Their ubiquity does not make them something that we should minimize or dismiss. These profound emotions and life experiences should not, however, be confused with living with PTSD. It’s important to acknowledge that there is no linear timeline for grief or loss, “getting over” an event and everyone experiences loss and sometimes suffers. Trauma stands apart from these other normalized parts of the human experience. There are some experiences that are so psychologically damaging that,...
