The Next Wave: “Coping ugly”

Cet article est aussi disponible en français First published on August 2, 2026 A YouTube video on trauma got me thinking about African startups A friend recently sent me a YouTube video featuring George Bonanno, a psychologist who has spent decades studying how people respond to trauma. It wasn’t the sort of video I’d normally watch, but one phrase lingered long after it ended: coping ugly . The more I thought about it, the more I realised it described something I’d been seeing across African t