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When writing about trauma retraumatizes the writer

I wrote a script about trauma and now every time I try to revise it I relive the experiences and have to stop writing for days

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing through art requires returning to wounds that may not be ready for repeated exposure.

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