A certain tone of voice and your chest tightens before you can think. An offhand comment and the old, familiar wave of not enough washes over you. You walk away from an ordinary interaction replaying it for hours, certain you handled it wrong. And somewhere in the middle of it, a frustrated, exhausted question surfaces: "Why am I still reacting like this when I understand it so well?"

Many people will experience some form of trauma in their life. The way the information will get processed depends on an individual’s history, coping skills, their larger meaning of the event, and the reactions of their family and friends.