In my personal experience Trauma in the body happens when your central nervous system gets stuck in fight, flight or freeze mode and creates a lasting emotional wound. If that emotion is re-triggered you can experience instant outbursts. And if you are empathic will usually lead to overthinking, head pain and anxious sensations in the body. Traumatic events can be one event like receiving or witnessing physical or verbal abuse or ongoing subtle events like emotional unavailability, gaslighting or narcissism. Also what may be traumatic for one person may not be for another. Even something small that wasn’t resolved, apologised or reassured properly might
affect us in adulthood.
You can experience trauma at any time in life but it is believed that the formative years of childhood creates the most opportunity for trauma to create emotional wounds as we are still developing and also we can often not escape or fight so the freeze mode is often activated. My 3 Phase Method is based on helping resolve these early developmental traumas.Check out these two articles from Psychology Today for more information on
overthinking and
childhood trauma.