The Trauma of Being Zak

‘Problems are lazy buggers … and if you go on ahead of them they often don't have enough energy to catch you up.’

Richard Wilkins

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You've heard of the saying, ‘What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.’

That may well depend on whether you've got a fixed or growth mind-set. You will be familiar with ‘post-traumatic stress disorder’, a mental replay of a terrible event that happened in your past but is blighting your present. You think back to it and, whoosh, you're flooded with the same terrible cocktail of emotions as though it was happening again and again. PTSD seems to be very common and it courts publicity because ...

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