The Cultural Impact of Stress and Trauma

I think at core, we have collectively segmented stress and trauma as two different things. Stress is something that is romanticized. We take it as this like badge of honor to be able to claim that we're exhausted and run ragged and super stressed. It feeds this rat race in some ways, this FOMO kind of addiction towards stress being a good thing. And so people who are really suffering that way, they don't really want to admit it to themselves or to anyone else because that somehow reflects on them that they're somehow broken or wrong or weak or powerless.