Post-traumatic growth is not just cognitive reframing
In 2022, during a hospitalization following an extreme psychological and physiological crisis, I experienced something I struggled to describe using existing clinical language. What followed did not feel like recovery, coping, or reframing. It felt like a complete neurological and existential reorganization.
As a researcher and writer grounded in trauma science, I searched for frameworks that could explain the magnitude and durability of the change. Post-traumatic growth (PTG) came closest. Yet …
Post-traumatic growth is not just cognitive reframing
