Masks People Wear: Stories of Generational Trauma and Relationships

‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings’…
The masks we wear or are compelled to wear, not only by family and society but also by our own impulses, our own perceptions of ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ form the crux of these narratives. For many, the mask becomes like a second skin, they even stop noticing that it is on and are loath to cast it off. For others, it is a burden; like a parasite that sucks their life blood out of them insidiously but surely, in the slow and unrelenting course of time.