Philosophy

Philosophy

Introduction

Trauma severely affects many nuances of one's life. However, can we imagine a traumatized person being totally sad without being able to be happy at all? Based on the information in this entry and using it as an analogy, it seems that traumatized individuals also retain the ability to be happy and to enjoy the pleasures of life. Even though coexistence between trauma and happiness might sound paradoxical, research data suggest that the one cannot exclude the other. People who were imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps often lacked even a piece of bread to eat. For them, simply having a ...