Psychological trauma is a person’s experience of emotional distress resulting from an event that overwhelms the capacity to emotionally digest it.
It seems possible to traumatize oneself or something akin to it anyway. In the past few years I have seen / thought things which have had a lasting impact in my mind. Encountering something shocking due to ones on will and then being unable to correctly process it or ones reaction to it. There are a couple of occasions of this that I would like to touch on. 1.