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It is really hard to determine what qualifies as trauma in this article.

It seems like a spectrum of course, but it is hard to tell what region of the spectrum is being focused on.

One of his primary arguments in the book is that trauma is not always a dramatic event like those usually associated with PTSD. Instead, trauma, especially as experienced in childhood, can be sustained abuse, degradation, neglect with a cumulative impact equal to that of a dramatic event.

trauma is not an event or sequence of events, trauma is the physiological response to an event or sequence of events that were highly stressful.

trauma is a collection of symptoms, biomarkers, and behavioral adaptations.

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