What My Patients Taught Me

Tag: trauma

  • Wrath

    Wrath

    She was a very tiny lady, eighty pounds soaking wet if that. Her fine gray hair was pulled back in a proper bun, her makeup soft and almost non-detectable from a distance. She wore her clothes, obviously expensive but weathered and frayed, in that haphazard way that the once wealthy do. Eighty years old, she…

  • Emotional Trauma

        Here are four scenarios for  you to ponder:   1) “OMG, my boyfriend just sent me a text message that he was breaking up with me. Can you believe that? I’m going to kill myself. That’s all I can do. I’m just going to kill myself. My life is over, do you hear…