"Look, it's not going to be easy because they're traumatized themselves," he said of his students.
The people sitting on stoops all day cannot be expected to spring to their feet with a Protestant-work-ethic gleam in their eye, because they are traumatized and demoralized.
So Ted gets down on one knee and my entire family starts to cry, in part because they're moved, but mainly because they're traumatized by the experience of seeing my grandmother's body exhumed and made to move around through a series of shocks, which is just so unnatural and disturbing.
"But over time, because they are traumatized and constantly given drugs, this becomes habitual – the only reality they know.
The women told me that they are very concerned about the children in their classrooms because they are traumatized by what they have seen.
The girls' families said they were traumatized.
They were traumatized and had nothing to do all day".
"And they are traumatized".
"People are angry; they're traumatized".
"They are traumatized and terrified," Mr. Akol said.
