Karky’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

It's a strange choice to say that our terminology around cancer as a thing to fight against isn't helpful when earlier they mentioned how a mother had said "fuck your diagnosis" to a doctor and then lived years beyond the time he gave her

So far, I've read everything this covers in other material. The part that has jumped out of me so far was their comments on "trauma" becoming diluted as an overused term. While I think I understand what he's getting at about stress vs trauma, I don't necessarily agree with his reason for demeaning trigger warnings. He puts emphasis on RE-traumazation, but I wished he talked the visceral response some may experience.

This opens with how we're getting sicker. I don't know if that's the case since our understanding of illness has changed, and record keeping of certain populations was often neglected. In any case, the mention of younger generations feeling betrayed and not seeing a future in light of climate change, and the health impact of that stress worries me as we're already seeing a rise in the far right. It's gonna get worse.