Trauma -> an experience that threatens your way of being / safety above and beyond what you’re capable of handling at the time. It exists on a spectrum. So the

Trauma -> an experience that threatens your way of being / safety above and beyond what you’re capable of handling at the time. It exists on a spectrum. So there’s large and small traumas and something that is traumatic for one person might not be for another. To the spectrum point: seeing your friend killed in war can be traumatic. But also, if you don’t have the emotional tools to handle rejection, then that can also be an event that overloads your emotional system. (Not making value judgements, both no good) PTSD -> post traumatic stress disorder. A group of symptoms that are believed to be originated from a traumatic event and have certain characteristics. An event can be traumatic but not lead to ptsd. Playing a little bit of devils advocate here. I wouldn’t say I’m in the crowd of “it’s trauma if you think it is”. However it can be useful to look at the processes of how our emotional processing system handles events, even if the systems someone is facing don’t reach the level of full on debilitating PTSD.