What is traumatic is deeply personal; abuse, neglect, discrimination, intergenerational trauma (family history) or any event where you feel intense fear, threat, humiliation, rejection, powerlessness or invalidation. Sometimes we can react in a traumatised way without fully knowing what caused the reaction. This can be especially true of those who experienced a boarding school childhood. Aspects of our lives which we would prefer to bury and forget can emerge in ways that become problematic. In therapy, we work towards understanding the affect of original trauma, how it impacts our present, and turn "reactions" into responses.