“Secondary trauma” is what psychologists call all the not-sleeping, overeating, and not-relaxing I experienced after spending years writing about trauma. I’d been following her story for more than two years when her mom phoned to say that her battered body had been discovered at the bottom of a dumpster on Christmas Eve. When my third book, Dopesick, came out in 2018, I found myself in the place of promoting a book at the same time I was grieving the recent murder of 28-year-old Tess Henry, a main protagonist of that book.
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