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The word “#trauma” comes from ancient Greek, and until the 19th century it meant a physical injury, a lost limb or damaged body part.

The word earned the definition of “psychic wound” during the #GildedAge and #IndustrialRevolution, as modern society abstracted away labor and suffering via automation and machinery.

It’s never been a disorder.

It’s a symptom of our altered states as we mechanize instruments of production and destruction.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/altered-states-of-learning-to-work-with-machines

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