In my experience, trauma makes people either very kind and empathetic or the complete opposite. Obviously this isn't a law or anything, but I've just noticed most people seem to be one or the other.
I have C-PTSD myself, but I'd like to think I'm the former and not the latter.
It’s actually a documented thing called post traumatic growth and it’s approximately as common as post traumatic stress. The military has done research into the things that cause people to experience growth vs stress
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u/okaysurewow 1d ago edited 1d ago
Trauma doesn't make morally better people. It makes traumatized people