And so they came to fear the very thing that they now most need: an enfolding, restorative and profoundly understanding tenderness towards their traumatised early selves.
Investors are traumatised by the decade-long boom-and-bust cycle in which shale-drillers burned through more than $150bn in cumulative free cashflow from 2011 to 2020.
We learn to be vulnerable by understanding that those who conveyed the imperative of a tougher (non-crying, non-fragile loving) self were profoundly incorrect and in their way, probably deeply traumatised themselves.
It was obvious he was traumatised from the violence he had seen, but still Fergal didn't go to a psychiatrist – a medical doctor who specialises in treating mental illness.