Trauma is an all-encompassing vice that holds both the mind and body in an iron-like grip of confusion, pain, and anxiety. The visceral shock of a traumatic event penetrates every nerve, sending our entire being into a tornado of ungraspable thoughts and feelings. There’s simply too much going on for any hope of instant stabilization, and every moment carries the weight of unprocessed emotions; a whirlwind that can once again send us spiraling into the depths of what we don’t know, don’t want to know, or just can’t understand. It’s the question of why bad things happen that looms on the horizon, eating away at our nerves and clouding our thoughts…And in such times we’re desperate for help and support, but are too jumbled to express what we need. Our internal and physical chaos projects an unnerving cloud on the environment, unsettling those clos...
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Deepest condolences for your friend's loss, Daven.
ReplyDeleteI wholeheartedly agree that empathy and understanding should be practiced by anyone in a position to do so. Ironically, there are just too many people in this world who think that being blessed is an excuse to be arrogant, tantamount to hypocrisy, while the rest of us wanted to do away with our own prejudices. It's an imperfect world, yet it's all we have.