How does trauma affect mental illness?

Those who suffer traumatic event are likely to develop a mental disease, known as PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder).This trauma might create an emotional response to something that caused damage, either physical or emotional.

Those events may produce loss of confidence and can also make the individual become a more introverted, shy and distrustful person.

As stated before, PTSD is one of the more common consequences of trauma, this can produce depression, a lack of emotion and episode of fear and anxiety in the individual.

One interesting thing about trauma is that people who have suffered it must have forgotten what happened but the memory is still in their brains. Therefore, although they might not remember it while doing their normal activities, they may see something that their brain can link to the grounded memories it has about the trauma so it can produce a shocking response in the individual, such as panic attacks, aggressiveness...