The Commodification of Trauma: How Emotional Pain Became Marketable

Summary

The article examines how trauma and emotional pain have become commodified in modern society, using examples like Dr. Gabor Maté's public diagnosis of Prince Harry to illustrate how personal suffering is now packaged, branded, and sold. It explores how in an economy that rewards confession and self-labeling, trauma has transformed from something to survive into something to market and curate, creating a culture where emotional pain is increasingly treated as a product rather than a private experience.