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We have also lost moments of shared empathy – a space for others to see people who are travelling the same path.
Malaysia Hammond, 19, places flowers at a memorial mural for George Floyd at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street on May 31, 2020, in Minneapolis.
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Recording and bearing witness to a Black person’s death from police violence is in itself traumatizing.
An abrupt end to school for would-be graduates has the potential to turn existential despair into traumatic loss.
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Don’t medicalize all anguish and existential despair, says a registered psychotherapist. Consider earlier traumas and 7 books about suffering and survival.