｢ what was once tragedy has become a product ｣
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/14/trauma-mental-health
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｢ Today, an entire industry has spawned around the idea that everything is trauma. Once understood as the psyche’s confrontation with genuine catastrophe, trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated and curated by the individual.
This drift marks the entrance point to a broader cultural shift: the commodification of pain ｣
｢ Once cloaked in shame, trauma has shifted from “stigmatizing to romanticizing”, Javanbakht said. It is the modern hero’s journey, facilitated by a booming marketplace and algorithms that reward the recitation of our misery ｣
@jbz Listening to your traumatic story is traumatizing.