The phrase has been used online to describe connections built through shared suffering, but experts say that’s all wrong.

“Trauma is now treated as a personal possession: something to be owned, narrated, and curated by the individual,” writes Katherine Rowland in The Guardian, in an article aptly titled “They’re selling ...

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A new Utah report says as many as 44% of women giving birth have a traumatic experience that may stay with them for a long time.

Many adults grew up in dysfunctional homes without realizing how much it impacted them. Learn why family trauma is hard to ...

You may have heard of the term trauma bond, but if you were asked to explain what it means, could you? Sometimes it gets thrown around incorrectly to describe people who have bonded over a shared ...

It is human to want to connect with others. And sometimes, if you’ve had a particularly rough day (or week, or year), it can be freeing to bond with someone by sharing deep secrets or your troubled ...