Пренебрегваното социално страдание: уязвимостта на „неуязвимите“
Ignored social suffering: the vulnerability of those we think “invulnerable”

Summary/Abstract: Within this article I am planning to draw your attention on one still little known "face" of social suffering, and in particular- the banality of everyday life "small sufferings", which are not registered by the conventional definitions of social security and vulnerability, and partly by society itself with its structures, institutions and entities. The official state discourse equalises the social vulnerability and insecurity of the individual with the level of his income, education, employment, health. This one-sided, administrative view on social suffering - mostly as locked in the dichotomy "inclusion" - "exclusion" - captures only those individuals that the bureaucratic apparatus classifies as representatives of the so-called vulnerable groups: those with severe illness and disability, people living in t extremely poverty, ethnic minority groups, refugees, the unemployed, etc. Thus, the social suffering of those who, due to all of this, we should call "invulnerable" remains beyond the scope of this vie. It is their everyday suffering that I wish to provoke you to "look at" on, as an attempt to find an answer to the question: what is due to an existence, penetrated by uncertainty caused not by the impossibility to sustain a (bureaucratic) certain socio-economic situation or a distinct type of socio-economic standard of living, but because of the fear that you live a life in which is becoming impossible to keep investing in.

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