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When therapy fails because trauma is trapped in another language

My therapist only speaks English but my trauma happened in Spanish and I can't access the real pain in translation.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Psychological wounds encoded in one linguistic system cannot be fully accessed or processed through another language's framework.

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