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How institutional demands conflict with therapeutic healing

My therapist says I need to process my trauma but the commission keeps asking me to retell my story for different hearings and I feel like I'm performing my pain.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The repetitive nature of formal testimony can commodify personal suffering rather than facilitate genuine recovery.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Truth and reconciliation commissions?”

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