I shall try to keep it simple, and hopefully interesting, this very brief but quite necessary discussion of psychology.

Post Traumatic Stress = instant simplified diagnosis of the 97% of us who grew up in dysfunctional families (see Chapter 16 for more about our dysfunctional families). Almost all of us suffer still from unhealed traumas suffered at the hands of both parents and society during our first 18 years. We currently reveal unresolved stress from these traumas by the symptoms that erupt when our trauma buttons get triggered.

The useful molehills of psychological knowledge are often obscured by the mountains of psychological claptrap now available. 

If you broke a bone in your arm, you would expect treatment from the doctor similar to treatment you would receive for a broken leg, wrist or foot. You would understand the treatment because you understand the root problem, a broken bone. For the wide variety of psychological symptoms, however, a general understanding by clients is commonly lacking about underlying roots. The roots of most symptoms have much in common with each other, though the symptoms themselves may be very different. The concept of root traumas, obvious and not-so-obvious, can provide you with a general understanding of what therapies are often trying to explore