George Bonanno
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard Aug 2025
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Yeah, grief, I think, has a different element to it.
That element that somehow you are not honoring the person that had died if you move on too quickly.
But there's another element to it also, which is that we are wired, if I can use that word, we're wired for threat, for danger.
We pay attention when something bad happens.
the internet knows this, you know, all media know this, that clicks online come from, from really bad things that are attention getting things, ugly, disastrous things.
In the modern era, just around the time of when the internet was really taking off was when also these diagnoses for grief and trauma really came to the fore.
And lots of books are written about
how bad these things can be.
And the books were well-meant and they were accurate books about the disorder itself when people can't recover.
But those books got a lot of attention and I think led to the idea in the popular culture that these events are going to, you know, really harm us when they happen.
I've argued actually that one reason why therapists tend to think that trauma is more common than it is, and therapists do overestimate the prevalence of trauma typically, is if they see traumatized people, they see traumatized people in their practice.
And they see a lot more than is in the normal populations than the base rate.
So they tend to then overgeneralize that to the general population.
It's a very human thing to do.
It's not evil or dumb.
It's a very human thing that therapists do because they are humans.
Yeah.
There's something I call the resilience blind spot, which is that right in the middle of, particularly in a disaster, but when we're in the middle of, in the throes of our initial reaction to a seriously aversive event, we do get upset.
We have a very good stress response.
Our mind-body system has a very well-honed stress response.
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