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I personally think the over-emphasis on (in the majority of cases individual) trauma is just an easy way out for society as a whole to intrinsically "forget" ab
by paganel 4y ago
I personally think the over-emphasis on (in the majority of cases individual) trauma is just an easy way out for society as a whole to intrinsically "forget" about its implicit "tasks", such as taking care of its constituent members.
It's easier to instil in someone the feeling of "you're depressed because you have been abused as a child, and if you don't remember the abuse itself it doesn't mean it isn't there, otherwise you wouldn't have been depressed", than to solve real societal issues that are more likely causes for said depression, as I've heard almost no-one say "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care".
- pessimizer 4y ago> "we'll cure mass depression by making housing more affordable or by providing free child-care". We don't have time for that, we need to hunt down potential abusers and yell "shame on you" at them in public, and get other people to yell "shame on you" at them. If we broke up the banks tomorrow, would that end racism?
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoAnd as a child of abuse myself, I hate these attitudes. The deed is done. You can't un-pregnant that woman, nor can you un-abuse that child. Declaring that the abuse shouldn't have happened in the first place does fuck-all for the child who has been abused.
- kirsebaer 4y agoLots of people have a high standard of living but still suffer from childhood abuse and neglect.