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On the show today, we're going to talk about trauma. Lexi Pandel recently wrote about trauma

for Vox. To start, it's important to say that trauma is real and PTSD is a real

diagnosable disorder. But with that said, there's a huge appetite for trauma right now.

There's this one book called The Body Keeps the Score, and it isn't light reading. It's a very

serious book that discusses horrific traumatic events in great detail and argues essentially

that trauma can change brain and bodily functions. And so a lot of people still think that trauma

is something that's happiest to you. That's a story about a past. So, it's really a trauma,

is that your brain gets changed and you see the world differently and you live in a different

body, living in different worlds. So that book was published in 2014, but it has

hovered around the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback nonfiction

since February 2021. And as of this conversation, it is currently back in the number one spot.

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