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A traumatic experience can be any of the following and more:
- One-time traumatic incident such as an accident, serious injury, or violent attack
- Ongoing trauma such as childhood violence, domestic abuse, or constant, lifelong stressors like growing up in an underprivileged neighbourhood, serving in the military or working as a first responder
- Grief or unexpected changes like surgery, serious illness, a sudden death of a loved one, or even the end of an important relationship
- Accident
- Serious injury
- Violent attack
- Childhood violence
- Domestic abuse
- Lifelong stressors
- Serving in the military
- First responder
- Grief
- Surgery
- Serious illness
- Sudden death of a loved one
- End of an important relationship
