The System Let Go of You. Your Body Didn’t Get the Memo.
The final post in a four-part series on systemic trauma, exploring how the harm outlasts system contact and what healing looks like when the system itself never changes.
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Case Closed Doesn’t Mean Case Over
A direct look at what it means when systemic trauma “officially” ends — why case closure and aging out are their own distinct wound, and why the guilt survivors carry was never theirs to hold.
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The Waiting Room Never Closes: What It Feels Like to Live Inside the System
A direct look at what it means to live inside ongoing systemic trauma — how survival strategies get mistaken for pathology, and what sustained contact with institutions actually costs.
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The Machine Doesn’t Hate You. It Just Doesn’t See You.
A direct look at how systemic trauma originates — not through individual cruelty, but through institutions designed to process people instead of seeing them.