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.
“It is a strange fact that the population of dogs and dog breeds that we enjoy today largely emerged as a hobby for bored aristocrats in a tiny sliver of English history—during a period in which classification, measurement, and standardization became a national obsession.”