Sometimes, whether we are the person impacted by some trauma or the outsider watching its impact, we have to sit in our own misery, because there is nothing else we can do. The truth is that most of us don’t possess the emotional tools to help others fix their lives or reframe how they perceive reality, and regardless of if we’ve endured something similar ourselves, we can never fully understand each other’s trauma. Verbalizing assurance and love and thoughtfulness toward someone in this sort of situation is incredibly difficult, and it rarely helps to the degree which we intend. Sometimes it’s because they don’t understand what another is going through, and other times they simply want another to feel better. People often talk about each other’s pain and trauma in the simplistic language of platitudes and clichés. Please continue reading with caution, and take care of yourselves. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night 2.1.3–7Ĭontent Warning: This article contains descriptions of domestic abuse, trauma, and suicide. Therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.
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