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Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by PaulHoule on Sunday September 21, 2025 @07:17PM (#45327535)
I like this concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome

in that it describes the interaction of poverty and mental illness which can well be interpreted in a left-wing frame (these people are victims of the system, they need to get some more resources to get their footing) or a right-wing frame (these people don't take responsibility, they drive away, squander or destroy resources)

At times theories of broad trauma were respectable such as Freud's Oedipus theory and even today I think certain kinds of organizations such as the U.S. Marines and the medical profession can be seen as transmitting their culture through traumatic experiences.

Re:The link between trauma, drug use, and our search to feel... by gsf_emergency_2 on Sunday September 21, 2025 @09:29PM (#45328258)
Right-wing trauma gets misdiagnosed (as autism, moral injury eg etc) because that setting is way less gauche.

Adding to your examples, there's tiger-mom type trauma (+Jewish variants of that) which has inherited the superficial respectability of Oedipal (neo-Bronze? Neo-aetic? Neo-chalcic?) myths

Tying back to GP's fairytales, obviously