What Trauma Can Do

People love saying, "Just get over it." As if trauma is a shirt you can take off when it becomes uncomfortable.

They don't understand that some people survive an event only once, but are forced to relive it every single day for the rest of their lives. Trauma doesn't always make people scream in their sleep. Sometimes it makes them fear the dark. Sometimes it makes them stop trusting people. And sometimes... it makes a sixteen-year-old girl wet her bed every single night.

Before you judge her, let me tell you her story.I met this girl in high school. She was one of the quietest students in the entire school. She wasn't the brightest in class, neither was she the noisiest. She simply existed. She spoke only when spoken to, always wore a faint smile, and never caused trouble.

If you saw her walking around the compound, you'd probably think she was just shy. What none of us knew was that every evening, while the rest of us were preparing to sleep, she was silently praying for morning to come. Nighttime was her greatest enemy

Every single night, she woke up soaked in...