In my experience it's kinda the opposite. Realizing that stuff was trauma helped move on from it. Until I had a framework for why a fairly-normal-sounding exper

In my experience it's kinda the opposite. Realizing that stuff was trauma helped move on from it. Until I had a framework for why a fairly-normal-sounding experience was affecting my personality so much, I just felt like I was going crazy. It helped a lot to realize that ruminating on it was how trauma works: its purpose is to figure out how to avoid a recurrence at all costs, including warping one's behavior in aberrant ways.