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Meh, stumbled across a misc article about being "Uncomfortable with Being Called a 'Trauma Survivor'". And at first, through the first few paragraphs, this was gonna be a bit of a call-out against all those other people constantly labeling their experiences, doctors prying, people calling her a "survivor" when that's a label she's never claimed.
Buuuut I think the main takeaway is actually meant to be something like, "It's hard to call yourself a survivor and tackle your trauma, but recovery is difficult, and maybe you'll feel comfortable when you're at that stage of recovery!" Not explicit, no, but hopefully I'm not just making that up, as the reason behind this article?
It's just. meh. It's weird how I don't see more people talking about this as just another case of coercive labeling, of "insight" and "you're toocrazy traumatized to realize you're crazy traumatized." Various Mad Pride-type places are really falling for the trauma research. It's really one of my biggest complaints with them -- as if "trauma" has stopped being a medical word, as if redirection towards past (especially childhood) trauma can't be just as potentially individualizing, apolitical, and stigmatizing as "well it's your biology."
Like, isn't it possible to talk about denial and minimization -- real things! -- without suggesting that it's alright for people in this person's life to call her a trauma survivor without her consent?
(Also, if you looked at the article, yeah there's something interesting with the "DID from young adulthood not childhood trauma" thing, but that's not what I'm fussing about. :V)
Buuuut I think the main takeaway is actually meant to be something like, "It's hard to call yourself a survivor and tackle your trauma, but recovery is difficult, and maybe you'll feel comfortable when you're at that stage of recovery!" Not explicit, no, but hopefully I'm not just making that up, as the reason behind this article?
It's just. meh. It's weird how I don't see more people talking about this as just another case of coercive labeling, of "insight" and "you're too
Like, isn't it possible to talk about denial and minimization -- real things! -- without suggesting that it's alright for people in this person's life to call her a trauma survivor without her consent?
(Also, if you looked at the article, yeah there's something interesting with the "DID from young adulthood not childhood trauma" thing, but that's not what I'm fussing about. :V)
