Psychological Effects Of Traumatic Experiences

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The effects of traumatic experiences highly depend on the person who suffered.
In daily life, it not unusual for us to watch local news and see somebody suicide because big changes or unsolved difficulties. Also, somebody would get depression because of big changes and never recover from the lost or anguish. On the other hands, we also know some great people who suffered and fought, then reborn from the fire like the phoenix.The establisher of Beast art, Matisse, had experienced bedridden for months because of depression and other physical sickness; one of the greatest composer in the last 300 years, Ludwig van Beethoven, had written the immortal Beethoven Symphony No.9 when suffering psychological struggles and losing hearing; the theoretical

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