This description will explore the effects of trauma on mental health. It will discuss the various types of trauma, such as physical, emotional, and psychological, and how they can affect a person's mental health. It will also look at the different ways trauma can manifest in a person's life,
Psychological trauma is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and possibly overwhelming physiological stress response, but does not always produce trauma per se. Examples of distressing events include violence, rape, or a terrorist attack.