The Swaddle's Rohitha Naraharisetty speaks to civil rights activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan about her book, 'The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition.'

The problem, it would seem, is the lack of sufficient vocabulary to simply encapsulate the struggles of living in a difficult world.

While trigger warnings reveal the subject of a piece of content, mood spoilers prepare people for how their minds may respond to it.

The science is still in its early days, but tweaking or removing traumatic memories could be a paradigm shift in treating PTSD.

A deep psychological wound is turned into a sexualized parody of women's pain.

The new discovery using microbial signatures might promote easier diagnosis, such that people can receive appropriate treatment.

Traumatic events encountered during childhood can lead to damage in cells, tissues, and organs.

Tattoos and piercings often serve as a "means of coping with previous adversity and be an expression of autonomy."

Using trigger warnings can be "invalidating" to trauma survivors because they're told -- over and over again -- that the warnings are helping when, in reality, they aren't.

While MDMA has been proven to have clinical benefits, experts warn that people can be "highly suggestible and vulnerable" under its influence.

The trope suggests that it's okay to assault -- or even kill -- someone if their actions violate our ethics.

“There’s still memory traces in their brain that can be woken up, that can be reactivated,” one of the researchers said.

"Hormones and brain chemicals... are released through our bodies with desired social contact... and are critical to our psychological and physical wellbeing."

"Hypervigilance and startle response are big issues for me. I’m constantly scanning to make sure everything’s safe."

Shakun Batra’s "slow-burner," in some ways, empowers survivors of childhood trauma to choose their narratives, rather than being defined by their past.

The research uses evidence of mental health decline among climate change survivors to debunk the myth linking trauma and resilience.

"It’s more important for people, for survival, to notice the lion in the bush than it is to notice [a] beautiful flower."

All it took to end three generations of the Bhatias–a family like any other–was a patriarch’s undiagnosed mental illness.