Word: trauma
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Your friends may recommend you seek professional help, but then, that's sort of what caused the problems in the first place. No matter what happens to your feeling of personal security, the rewards are too great to pass up. All your emotional trauma will be worth it if you are allowed to take part in the more exclusive experiments...
Self-awareness is television's big-time plague. Name the social issue, front-page crime or family trauma, and somebody is thrashing it out on a TV talk show. A listing of typical topics is a surrealistic blur of human misery, sideshow voyeurism and sheer lunacy: illegitimate kids who found their natural parents but wish they hadn't; transplant recipients who claim to have adopted the personalities of their donors; women who have been raped by the same man more than once; guys who like overweight gals; mothers-in-law from hell; doctors with AIDS; crack addicts with babies; celebrities...
Eventually many incest survivors will recover at least some memories of their trauma. Generally the flashbacks begin only after the victims reach their 30s, when they are either strong enough or safe enough to tolerate the pain. The most common memory triggers include learning about someone else's abuse, seeing children attain the same age at which one's own abuse occurred and undergoing therapy or hearing about the abuser's death...
Serial killers are the darlings of the press these days, and authors find these gruesome murderers equally attractive. Time for a new novel? Can't think of a topic? Serial killers provide guaranteed drama, trauma and public interest. Whoever says that there are no positive sides to America's love affair with the sordid obviously has never spoken to a writer of trashy thrillers...
...possessions on our beds before going to work, so we could never quite feel unpacked and settled in our rooms. Even worse, we had to survive amidst constant rumors that we'd all be moved to Mather at the end of the first week. More trauma...