Keep Your Trauma To Yourself, Pal

What if everything you've been told by counselors, ministers, spouses, etc., about the dangers of "repressing" your feelings, that you should unleash your trauma into the world so it doesn't explode within you -- what if all that was wrong, and that repressing it is precisely the best thing you can do? Psychologist Lauren Slater explores this question in her lengthy essay in in Sunday's New York Times. The time you eke out to read it will be, I think, well-spent. If not, well, then just keep it to yourself.