Pubished on acestoohigh.com on 7th January 2014
A considered and thought provoking article on the legacy of trauma on a wider societal level, written from the viewpoint of an American trauma therapist.
The writer makes a case for the increase in mental illness being the result of collective denial of the conditions that contribute to traumatic stress, and the lack of treatments to process unresolved trauma.
In my opinion Britain is on the same trajectory, and we can learn a lot from the trauma specialists in the US. Trauma is now everyone's problem, and society has a collective responsibility to alleviate this unspoken of destroyer of lives.
Read it here http://acestoohigh.com/2014/01/07/want-to-reduce-mental-illness-address-trauma/