Power Trip

What to Do When the News Cycle Triggers Your PTSD

For sexual assault survivors, it can feel impossible to stay informed without compromising your mental health

Tessa Miller
Published in
6 min readOct 2, 2018

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LLet me get this part out of the way: When I was 17, a relative sexually assaulted me, creating a deep chasm in my family that still exists 13 years later…

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Tessa Miller
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my book “sick forever” coming 2021 via henry holt / writing at ny times / curating at medium / past lives at the daily beast, lifehacker, wired