In recent years, the word trauma has become part of everyday language. Seeing mental health discussed more openly is a positive shift. However, it has also created confusion: not all emotional pain is trauma , and that does not make it less real or less deserving of care. Emotional pain is part of being human. Loss, disappointment, ongoing stress, and major life transitions can deeply affect us without meeting clinical criteria for trauma. Psychological trauma involves exper
December arrives with lights, reflections, and a quiet but heavy expectation: “you should be at peace.” At peace with your past. At peace with those who hurt you. At peace with yourself. But… what if you’re not? What if this year didn’t resolve everything? What if there are still open wounds, unfinished conversations, emotions that never got a happy ending? From a mental health perspective, there’s something important to say—clearly and without sugarcoating it: you don’t n
Silent pain deserves to be heard too There are griefs everyone sees: flowers, condolences, ceremonies. And then… there are the ones lived in secret. Losses with no funerals, no rituals. Hurts we swallow because “life goes on.”Wounds that ache quietly while we make coffee, reply to messages, and smile for pictures. Losing isn’t always about losing someone. Sometimes it’s losing what built us: • A dream we’ll never get to witness. • The version of us that no longer exists. • H
