The Many Faces Of Trauma

Kelley Calkins
The Establishment
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9 min readJun 27, 2016

James Cridland

PTSD is a natural response to trauma, and yet it remains profoundly stigmatized in our society—to the detriment of the millions of us dealing with the disorder.

Most days, I still don’t think that I look much like someone with PTSD. This is an odd thought whenever I interrogate it: I look like myself, my self has…

Kelley Calkins
The Establishment

Cofounder + News Director of The Establishment, lover of sea turtles.