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The Upside of Trauma
Pacific Standard ^ | June 27, 2013 | Mark Obbie

Posted on 07/04/2013 8:25:35 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes

Worries about post-traumatic stress have become a stock part of the media narrative surrounding tragedies like Boston and Newtown. And resilience is supposedly the best we can hope for in the face of adversity. But what if there’s a third option? The story of one mass shooting, and the surprising tug of post-traumatic growth.

(Excerpt) Read more at psmag.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: growth; stress; tragedy

1 posted on 07/04/2013 8:25:35 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes

Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 07/04/2013 9:55:51 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Well, at least one person read it!
I have been getting this magazine, unsolicited, for a couple years. Very interesting articles.


3 posted on 07/05/2013 7:04:17 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You can't force people to care.)
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