Causes of Trauma

 

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Trauma can be caused by an overwhelmingly negative event that causes a lasting impact on the victim's mental and emotional stability.

 

Below is a list that is not exhaustive – any more traumas you want us to add then let us know?

Adopted

Ageism

Amputation

Antisemitism

Armed forces

Arrest

Becoming visually / hearing impaired

Bereavement

Biological weapon

Biphobia

Bomb

Bullied

Burglary

Car crash

Car crash near miss

Cheating / infidelity

Chemical weapon

Child criminal exploitation

Child sexual exploitation

Climate

Coercive control

Computer virus

County lines

Criminal exploitation

Criminal justice system

Cult membership

Cyclone

Debt

Diagnosis – health / mental health / disability / chronic condition / terminal illness

Disablism

Disciplinary process / action

Discrimination

Dismissal

Domestic abuse

Drought

Drug overdose

Earthquake

Eating disorders

Emotional abuse

Emotional incest

Entering an elderly care home

Entering children’s care system

Exclusion

Exorcism

Experiencing or witnessing an accident

Explosion

False arrest

False imprisonment

Famine

Female genital mutilation

Financial abuse

Financial loss

Fire

Flood

Food poverty

Forced marriage

Forced migration

Fostered

Fraud victim

Gambling addiction

Gang membership

Gender dysphoria

Genocide

Groomed

Hacked

Hallucinating

Hate crime

Hearing voices when no-one is there

Heart attack

Held captive

Hoarding

Home invasion

Homophobia

Human trafficked

Hunger

Hurricane

Imprisonment / incarceration

Injustice

Kidnapped

Leaving care

Life or death situation

Lightning strike

Lived homeless

Loneliness

Loss

Manslaughter

Mastectomy

Miscarriage of pregnancy

Modern slavery

Mud slide

Munchausen syndrome

Munchausen syndrome by proxy

Murder

Natural disaster

Near death experience

Neglect

Nuclear weapon

Online abuse

Overdose

Pandemic

Parental cult membership

Parental incarceration

Parental mental health

Parental separation / divorce

Parental use of alcohol or drugs

Peer on peer abuse

Perinatal environment (impacts at least 17+ weeks of age in the womb)

Physical abuse

Placement changes in the children’s care system

Poor mental health

Poor parental mental health illness

Poverty

Pregnancy termination

Prisoner of war

Property repossession

Racism

Radicalisation

Redundancy

Refugee

Scam victim

School exclusion

Secondary trauma

Seeing things that aren’t really there

Self-harm

Sexism

Sexual abuse

Sexual assault

Sexual harassment

Sexually exploited

Shelling

Social worker changes in the care system

Stalking

Strangulation

Strip search

Stroke

Suicide

Suicide attempt

Suspension

Terrorism

Testimony at court

Transphobia

Tsunami

Twister

Vicarious trauma

Victim of crime

Volcano eruption

War / conflict

Witness of crime

Witness of violence

Wrongfully imprisoned

Young Carer