A trauma is what happens when faced with an overwhelmingly distressing event that exceeds the person's resources to cope with what is happening. The resultant traumatic symptoms are a normal response to an abnormal event. Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder can develop if the trauma is left untreated and the symptoms persist for months, even years. Symptoms of this disorder are anxiety based and involve having nightmares and flashbacks of the event, high anxiety triggered by stimuli that remind the person of the event, avoidance of reminders and quite often loss of trust in relationships and chaotic attachment to others. Symptoms of trauma can underlie clinical depression, mood and anxiety disorders.
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