What is “trauma”?
Really, what is this emotional catastrophe forcing college students to hide in safe places, hug therapy dogs, and sit outdoors in the middle of a campus holding hands for group cry-ins?
Frankly, this kind of “trauma” is how our educational leaders have co-opted real human tragedies into what amounts to self-serving sniveling. It’s now a tool to intimidate and dismiss an opposing opinion. It’s disgusting. Later I will explain how it’s done.
HOWEVER, Real trauma exists.
It exists in the universe of human tragedy, in the world of real life that somehow institutions of higher learning have managed to insulate themselves from. Real emotional trauma can happen, for example, if: Continue reading The Surprising Truth about Trauma