Heal Your Trauma, Don't Hide It!

9 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, Paridhi Dhingra illustrates how people often respond to emotional hurt by denying the injury—adopting a mindset of "nothing happened"—and then attempt to numb the pain through alcohol, addiction, over‑working, or constant busyness. She uses a concrete example of unintentionally touching a wound to show how the injured person’s reaction is not an over‑reaction but a genuine response to an unseen hurt. Dhingra argues that such avoidance only prevents the wound from healing; true recovery requires acknowledging the pain, confronting it, and allowing the wound to heal rather than hiding it.

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Imagine this is you, and you got hurt somewhere because of someone or something in your life. Now the natural reaction when people getting hurt is they try to cover up that hurt by believing कुछ नहीं हुआ. I did not get hurt at all. Now she's covering up that hurt, thinking that is enough. But here is what happens while talking to her sometimes. I touched her in that area by mistake, and she got hurt badly. And I'm thinking that's an overreaction. But that's not an overreaction. She's thinking I am overreacting, but I have no idea that I touched her in an area where there was a wound. So what do we do now? Now, as a natural reaction, so that next time she doesn't get hurt again, she's going to try and numb that pain. How? By using alcohol or addiction, or by keeping yourself busy all the time at work, or by overworking yourself. But that's never going to let the wound heal. The idea is not to hide the wound, it is to heal the wound.