What doesn’t kill you can still leave lasting wounds. You first have to survive, then survive the surviving.
I never saw Unbroken, because I knew enough details to know his struggle was not done when that war was over. And thus I find it fascinating they made a second movie about his healing. THAT is the part that interests me.
So often, in surviving, you have to mortgage everything, nearly everything that makes you human. You put your best parts in hock, in exchange for just getting through. What is left at the end is not what began. And in such a circumstance, it is not really healing, but recreation. That is all that is strong enough. Everything else is bandaids and blindness.