mathisworks via Getty Images There's a name for all this: Cascading collective trauma. If you feel like you are at the breaking point right now at your job, you are not alone. Americans are coping with what is known as “cascading collective trauma,” as termed by Roxane Cohen Silver, a University of California at Irvine psychologist who has researched trauma for decades. In an article published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, Silver and her co-authors described how the pandemic has added a new kind of layer to our cascading collective traumas, which they define as “chronic events with an ambiguous endpoint. Often traumas unfold as we are at work, making colleagues our most immediate possible support systems.

Source: Huffington Post June 16, 2022 17:28 UTC