trauma
At its core, trauma can be thought of as the psychological wounds that persist, even when the physical ones are long gone.
We Have Fooled Ourselves
I have been writing, in recent months, about human suffering. Not because I enjoy thinking about it, but because I believe that to look away from it, to convert it into abstraction, is itself a kind of complicity. I wrote about a feeling I was not supposed to have. I wrote about the price paid by those who never chose the conflict that consumes them. And now I find myself returning again, pulled back by images I cannot stop seeing.
By Hashem Koohyabout 5 hours ago in Psyche
The Power of Presence
When “Good Parenting” Became a Feeling In modern parenting conversations, “good” has increasingly come to mean emotionally warm, verbally affirming, and immediately comforting. A good parent is expected to soothe distress quickly, validate feelings consistently, and minimize discomfort whenever possible. These traits are treated as obvious indicators of healthy parenting, reinforced by cultural messaging, therapeutic language, and social reward structures. When a child feels better in the moment, the parenting decision is assumed to have been correct, and when discomfort persists, the decision is often framed as a failure of care rather than a necessary part of development.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 days ago in Psyche
The Only Son. Content Warning.
The Only Son I find it sad that a little boy who was taught to do everything by his parents words and allow them to make decisions for him till 3rd semester of senior decides to be strong and nice for those around him he isn't really good at making decisions on his own now but he is very nice to those around him he has 2 sisters a older one and a younger one he loves both of them dearly and he's really close to the younger one their practically besties but time comes for this boy to graduate except he doesn't know what to do after graduation he doesn't know what comes next his mother and father didn't make decisions for him up till now... the father says something along the lines "you're Man now you figure it out" the mother she doesn't say anything but her smile is the type of smile that says "she trusts you to figure it out."
By Kenny HeartFilia6 days ago in Psyche
Estrangement from My Parents: 15 Years Later. Content Warning.
2011: The year that I decided that enough was enough. I went home for summer break from Job Corps. For context, home was in Texas and I was attending a Job Corps center in Arkansas, nearing completion of my vocational trade, which was Office Administration. I was nearly four months away from graduating. Days before I was scheduled to head back to Job Corps, I felt like the two people who were supposed to love and support me were now focused on their attention towards my two younger siblings (a brother and sister). That was the last time I saw my family. My relationship with my family had been deteriorating for years, even well before I decided to officially distance myself from them.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 9 days ago in Psyche
