Mental Trauma Affliction and Infliction: Punishment and Atonement for Sins?

Article 5 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights states "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". It is widely acknowledged worldwide that trauma related afflictions and inflictions e.g. due to acquired brain injury, are becoming a major disease burden, producing increasing morbidity and mortality. Most researches focussed on understanding the structural and mechanism components of the trauma dynamics e.g. in brain injury, for the care-receiver: aetiology, epidemiology, diagnostics, prognostics and recovery issues and sequelae, and for the care-giver:burden, coping, financial-infrastructure-support needs, and information requisition and utilisation. A usually hidden but of immense significance is the emotional trauma suffered and the psychological pain endured by the care-giver and the care-receiver. Apart from some cursory allusion on societal nonchalant-attitude, within some researches; emotional trauma has been little studied. This discussion dwells on emotional trauma, and frames it within a setting involving religious beliefs and conviction. A discourse on such a sensitive domain is critical and timely since much unnecessary suffering accrues from a societal-sanction paradigm validating and sensationalising punitive and negative convictions. Language: en