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Throwing this out as an FYI: when anyone you know has been through serious trauma, and is busy plus coping w trauma, accusing them of putting up walls instead of trying to understand it is sort of like waving to someone inside a prison cell, and asking them to unlock the door.
The mental health establishment, and general “wellness” outposts here in America, are so busy criminalizing and pathologizing social harms they should be investigating that it results in social ostracizing, of the people that experience these harms. “Social justice” in these 2/
Situations often looks like mental gymnastics on the part of health professionals, who normalize and affirm the status quo, by trying to assert that traumatized individuals are supposed to gracefully and professionally ignore the ways their abusers/perpetrators are enabled 3/
in “educational” and “professional” settings. The only way or reason people in these institutions begin to care is when dozens of people have been harmed by the same bad actor. We are taught to label this irresponsibility as “vulnerability” on the part of the victims, 4/
as if the victims are the ones that opened themselves up to these bad actors. No, from top to bottom, institutions enable and protect such people until they can no longer do so. If one person comes forward, no one else who has been harmed can even legally know about it 5/
due to how the law prioritizes institutions and their employment practices over victims. But if victims don’t know who else has come forward, how do you know that persons’ actual trail of harms, when they’ve covered their tracks? Smart criminals do not leave trails. 6/
Not physical or electronic ones, anyway. The only trails take the form of people who’ve been victimized. These laws may be necessary to protect privacy concerns, but they need to be changed. 7/
