Past traumas can affect how people behave in the present from "summary" of Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
In the end, people generally find a way to live with their traumas. But it doesn't mean they disappear, or that they don't affect you anymore. They do. They always will. You just get used to them. You learn to live with them, even if they still leave a mark on your behavior. Because that's what trauma does to you. It changes you. Maybe not in big ways, not in ways that everyone else can see, but in small, subtle ways that you might not even notice yourself. Trauma gets inside you. It burrows deep and settles in, and it shapes who you are and how you respond to the world around you. Sometimes you get scared. You get anxious. You worry about things that haven't even happened yet, or things that might never happen. You find yourself overreacting to situations that other people might not understand. You push people away, even when all you really want is for them ...
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