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How to handle trauma triggers during cultural celebrations

My PTSD from childhood abuse gets worse during cultural holidays when everyone expects me to be grateful and happy and pretend our family is perfect

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Collective joy rituals are colliding with individual healing needs in ways that isolate and retraumatize.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mental health across cultures — stigma and access?”

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