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Trauma is a weird, complicated, often confusing thing.

One of the most difficult things about healing it is knowing it’s there in the first place.

Trauma can look like all kinds of similar things, including depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder. Because of that, people often get misled or misdiagnosed as having a mental illness or disorder, when in reality it’s trauma lurking under the surface.

So, it helps to know how to identify trauma.

This video helps explain what nine common signs of unresolved trauma are: