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“Trauma can be defined in terms of the relationship you establish with an event. Becoming traumatized depends on how your system responds to the way you perceive, interpret, and interact with the events you experience as overwhelming/shocking/threatening. Trauma is not the event itself!”

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Traumatization and Its Aftermath

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