trauma is universal in that is very common for humans to experience highly stressful life events that they have some difficulty fully metabolizing. this incomp

trauma is universal in that is very common for humans to experience highly stressful life events that they have some difficulty fully metabolizing. this incomplete metabolization is trauma. the event or events are not the trauma. developmental trauma is an epidemic in western society - this is what the presence of ACEs screen for. I don't think 100% of humans are explicitly traumatized but most humans will have some degree of hypo- and hyper-arousal type activation of the central nervous system in response to different situations and their history. some much more subtle than others.