You don't need to experience direct, deliberate abuse in order to experience trauma. There are lawyers who experience second-hand trauma while working on tough cases and health care workers who burn out after being overloaded with cases. Recent events in the news, such as the COVID-19 epidemic and former President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric, can also traumatize people even if they are not direct targets of mistreatment.
If nothing else, scientists and doctors have learned that the roots of trauma are extremely complicated.
