Trauma is spreading across America. Clinical social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors help many people with high anxiety. Trauma symptoms are linked to tyrannical events of our times.

What symptoms? Feelings of panic, helplessness, fear, hopelessness—we stare into space, caught in the grip of trauma that overwhelms us. Usual responses—flight, fight, freeze OR COPE.

What’s causing the infectious spread of trauma? Tyrannical events blast us like hailstones—too big to digest and too powerful to hold, just plain shocking and painful: job loss, the closing of valued institutions, violent arrest of immigrants and others, avoidance of due process and more.

Coping involves recognizing and continual recovering from the flood of traumatic events throughout America.

Hope filling is a process designed for coping, thriving, and loving America. Please keep tuned for more information and the publication of Tyranny and Trauma: Recognizing and Recovering by Dr. Marti Loring.