The Trauma of Refugees

As the child of refugees yourself, was that something that you also experienced? I think this is a very common experience for lots of people who have fled from some country due to some horrifying war or trauma. One of the things that trauma does to us is that it makes us fixate on a particular kind of event and one definition of trauma is that it's a memory that we cannot narrate ourselves out of. You circle around the traumatic experience and you can't get out of it. For example, the fall of Saigon rippled through me. It was only a few months for me. My brother, who was seven years older, didn't get to come home for two years

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