What iZombie Says About Living With Trauma (early access)
The moral case for working your way through trauma and learning to live with it.
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We all have some kind of trauma.
Things in our past that we'd like to forget and move forward from. Some of us have more trauma than others, but all of us have it. It could be something like being humiliated by someone they care about or actually being harmed physically. A natural human response is to get away from the experience. To make it something that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. What does it matter if the world is going to end? Or if we're all going to die anyway from cancer or natural disaster or a fast spreading disease of some kind? These terrible potential events seem far more important. Yet when it comes right down to it, these traumatic experiences will be front and centre in your mind. Even if we don't want them to.
Perhaps when you least want them, for instance during a heated conversation with a client or a lover. That isn't necessarily the best thing. Especially because the trauma doesn't just affect you. It ends up impacting the people around you. Not to mention the people around you end up affecting others, spreading almost like a virus from person to person. Your trauma isn't just about you, it's about the other people around you as well. In order to find a way to avoid having it spread, you have to find a way to deal with your problem.
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