Trauma & Covid-19

An article in the BBC in February provided food for thought and fed into a discussion we have had plenty of times as to what is trauma? Is it a specific event like a car crash, is it prolonged negative experience like bullying at school, is it a world event like living through Covid-19? Or is it how we respond, interpret, adapt to it - is it the message we take away? Is it the physical impact that is left with us?

This article explores if Covid-19 and the associated trauma. They define trauma as being ‘a rupture in meaning-making’ and that mass trauma is when the same event ‘traumatises a large number of people within some shared time span’. This is an interesting article to reflect on how Covid has affected us, as well as I think remembering that it has affected us all in different ways.

The full article from the BBC can be found here.