Managing Collective Trauma The last year can be described as a cascading collective trauma for Pakistanis, regardless of which side of the polarization they stand. The information highway is chaotic with newsbreaks unfolding with bewildering speed. How can a nation cope with this unrelenting stress? It seems it is not Pakistan alone, but nations across the world, who face this uncertainty. As journalist Elizabeth Berg puts it - our crazy world Is making us stressed and sad. A corrosive culture is eating away at the values that we built our social structures on. Baba Fariduddin Ganjshakar wrote “I thought I was alone who suffered. I went on top of the house, and found every house on fire.” We ask the question, why is the world so sad? Reliefweb International reports that 9 out of every 10 countries have fallen backwards in health, education, and standard of living and “a totally overwhelmed global society is staggering from crisis to crisis”. The world has alwa