“I’ve had too many special things taken away.”
Trauma is annular. Once the brain experiences a shock so prodigious, it is permanently altered in how it operates. Where there was once a way to escape from the pain of life, there is now an enclosed ellipse that manifests responses to this pain in a way that is unique for everybody, and someone who hasn’t experience it cannot possibly fathom its depths. One individual may externalize their trauma, expressing it openly,…