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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: Is Trauma the New Scapegoat
Description: Is Trauma the New Scapegoat?
The phrase trauma seems to be everywhere. Statistics show that over 5,500 podcasts have trauma in the title. On TikTok, #trauma has over 6.2 billion views. A recent article title pretty much sums it up: How trauma became the word of the decade. Good question. There is a growing opinion among some that attribute all our problems to trauma. Is that true? Has the word become overused?Â
These days it's common to hear... I was stuck in traffic - it was traumatic! Or... I was traumatized w...