Gabor Maté says that trauma isn’t what happened to you, it’s what you hold onto in the absence of an empathetic witness. We need all the tools and meds and support, but we need each other most of all. #medsky #spiritualcare #chaplains #healthcare #mentalhealth 3/x

It's striking how often these pronouncements are made about what is going to happen, as though the speakers have been blessed with the gift of prophecy. An attempt to act like they're in control rather than to do the things that would actually give us some control.

Right now naive cynicism consists of "no one is doing anything/it will never work" pronouncements rather than actually seeing what people are doing, and there are things that will work if they get support, which these postures attempt to undermine. It's weaponized incuriosity.