For most survivors, life is no longer the same after trauma. Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer makes this point well: The survivor does not travel a road from the normal to the bizarre back to the normal again . . . but from the normal to the bizarre back to a normalcy so permeated by the bizarre encounter with atrocity that it can never be purified again. The two worlds haunt each other.
Preston McDaniel Hill
From the book “Christ and Trauma”