What ‘trauma bonding’ really means.

The phrase “trauma bonding” has been used online to describe connections built through shared suffering, but experts say that’s all wrong. (Vanessa Saba/The New York Times) By CHRISTINA CARON As a young girl, Lilli Correll both loved and feared her mother. In good times, she felt special — her mother affectionately called her Monkey, and they often laughed together. “I was her favorite child,” said Correll, now 55 and living in Austin, Texas. But at other times her mother, who had bipolar...

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