The Effects of Punishment on Healing

Punishment temporarily relieves the object feeling of helplessness that you experience when you were traumatized, because it is to enact against the other. But I don't think that this restores your agency and your empowerment in a sustainable and long term way. And also, what if they're punished and then you're still fucking traumatized? Yes. That's not going to stop you from being traumatized. The work of healing from trauma is actually like a whole different thing.