Healing that Second Cut.

How Coronavirus is Healing My Already-Existing Trauma.

Healing is confusing and inconvenient. Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

When I was traumatized, I was cut twice.

First, by people I should have been able to trust, who hurt me directly…who inflicted the trauma.

But the second cut was by a society that asked me to swallow my trauma…to get over it, and fast. To be good. To not cause a fuss.