Is trauma a potential EA cause area?

Abstract

I’m referring to general traumatic experiences – both the ones that might more typically come to mind like witnessing a violent event and things like this, but also more “microtraumas” like getting bullied at school. My hypothesis might be that reducing trauma could improve human co-operation and coordination. The logic might be that trauma means that when people communicate they accidentally “trigger” something below the surface in the other person, and so then the conversation becomes about something that it’s not ostensibly about, and cooperation becomes harder.