The Truth About Healing

I was warned. “Don’t talk about healing.” People don’t like that word. Reasonable people told me that. “Use another word.” I also remember being told in post-war Bosnia by the head of the US Agency for International Development that the people of Bosnia didn’t have mental health problems after a genocide happened there. Obviously that is not a direct quote. And obviously they wouldn’t be thrilled that I am recounting this. I only bring it up because of the obvious elephant in the room that no one is supposed to have problems. Even when mass catastrophe hits, there seems to be a knee jerk reaction of “other people have that problem.”