A Journey Through Trauma with Marlyn O'Connor

[@darren_mcgarvey]

Hey guys thanks for checking this episode. Why not come see some live discussion at the Edinburgh Fringe in Aug? Tickets available now: www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2036/darren-mcgarvey-trauma-industrial-complex-trauma-and-oversharing-in-the-age-of-lived-experience

[@hoofydoolittle]

Will see you at the Glad cafe on sunday. Looking forward to the talk. This is an important discussion that needs to be happening right now. Thanks for all your hard work and for fighting the good fight. I hope your voice continues to be heard and understood in these dark times.

[@emperorpelican8187]

great some love it

[@darthpiercer]

That was a lovely interaction and completely reinforced my belief in positive buffers. You embody a quote from the late Tina Henry. "Poor outcomes are not inevitable".

[@msgilsification]

Thanks Darren. Hoping to see you in Edinburgh.

[@amac2573]

Thanks to both of you. After some of my own early experiences of psychotherapy, I got the impression that Therapists thought or expected me to be ok after I had talked about what had happened and how I experienced it. Unfortunately seeing different Therapists, Counsellors and Psychiatrists repeatedly explaining events I now suspect was actually re-traumatising me. To try to be fair to them there wasn't the knowledge and understanding back then that there is now. However I am left with a reinforced sense that I am failing and flawed....I am still the problem. In addition while I have found the explosion in information and knowledge about narcissism and personality disorders to some extent enlightening, I am also concerned about the "blame game" and stigma that has grown with it.