What is trauma vs PTSD?
“According to the American Psychological Association, trauma is an emotional response to a terrible event. Trauma can occur once, or on multiple occasions and an individual can experience more than one type of trauma.” PTSD is the mental health disorder that is associated when someone experiences or witnesses a trauma.
So basically trauma is the event and PTSD is a potential outcome of that experience.
So basically if you experience something uncomfortable or painful or scary that is a “Trauma” but it won’t always turn into PTSD
PTSD is what happens when the brain can’t really process the trauma
Like there is more nuance to it but that’s the basic explanation
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