What is trauma?
Trauma or traumatic event is a highly devastating and upsetting event like exposure to death or life-threatening experience, serious injury, or sexual assault. Moreover, various other catastrophic events that threaten a person's physical, psychological, and emotional integrity are also deemed trauma, like the loss of job, a divorce or break-up, or a humiliating social experience. Traumatic events lead to extreme powerlessness, helplessness, and a person's fundamental beliefs can be shattered.
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