@IveyJanette@fulanigirl@thepoliticalcat@venitamathias@blackmastodon
Trauma is an interesting one. You can sometimes choose to leave it behind.. if you're lucky.
I think counselling is good up to a point like any "medicine". But you have to get stronger again and mend from that medicine, or you'll just descend into a pit.
I once read that trauma is an event or pain done to you, but if you re-live it and don't let it ğo, then the trauma is coming from you to yourself over and over again.
There's an element of truth in that for sure but in sthg like racism or war or abuse that's ongoing, its hard to let it go, unless you can fully remove yourself from it. In my case I emigrated. I was lucky it was a way out. Not everyone has that.
I have no idea what Id do if i was Black in a hostile community in USA with shooters wanting me dead.