The World is So Messed Up, We’re Inventing New Forms of Trauma

Living Through an Age of Collapse Like This is Traumatic In Ways We Don’t Even Understand Yet

Image Credit: Jim McMann

I often say that we live in an age of trauma. There’s a simple way to think about that. The world is so messed up, we’re having to name new forms of mental trauma just to make sense of our own inability to cope with it.The world is so messed up it’s messing with our heads.

Take the example of “climate grief.” A few years ago, the …