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Trauma is no easy thing to deal with, whether your trauma is from years of microaggressions in the form of racism or misogyny, or a singular (or multiple) traumatic event such as a health crisis, poverty or homelessness, physical attacks, no matter the source of the trauma, those internal, emotional and mental injuries leave their damage.  In Doctor Who, the Tenth Doctor talks about being taken, as all young Time Lords are, to the Untempered Schism as a child, "Eight years old, staring at the raw power of time and space, just a child. Some would be inspired; some would run away, and some would go mad." ("The Sound of Drums") These are some possible reactions to trauma, especially childhood trauma. Some people become inspired – to create something from their pain or to reach out to others, some try to run from their pain, and some end up spreading their pain to others. Many times, we go through at least a couple of these stages. Imagine that when we have been hurt...