Trauma shows up in culture as: 1. An excessive focus on achievement and external appearance. 2. Parenting as an insignificant and overlooked role. 3. Ignoring issues like financial insecurity, chronic stress, and loneliness as a root cause of disorders. 4. Urgency: an obsession with being responsive or "on" 24/7. 5. Viewing natural human emotions as a disorder or something to suppress. 6. A fixation on what other people think of us, rather than how we actually feel. 7. Mental health treatments that focus on getting a person to adapt to an unhealthy environment, rather than changing the environment itself. 7. Normalized chronic relationship dysfunction, betrayal, and deception. 8. Systems built around competition, exclusion, and divisiveness. 9. Exhaustion and burnout as something that's normal to get over. 10. Rampant addiction: substances used to numb and dissociate from life as we know it.