Trauma

how do we define Trauma? how do we know what exactly causes trauma? is trauma a social construct, a mental reiteration? when i first read "bitter chocolate" by Pinki Virani, i was 15. i related to so many of the events and i bet any girl/any woman at any nook and corner of the world can relate in their own way. child molestation: a Trauma. the child grows, time fades memories and thats what everyone says. does time has the power to heal a trauma? i will say it only pushes to a dark corner, the truma remains hidden, takes its own faces, makes its own gestures. The pain learns to put on masks, hide behind saturated make-ups, tears finds sunglasses but the pain stays. the crude pain of the immediate moment reforms into a refined pain. gradually imagination adds or deducts from the actual reality. Trauma moulds, takes different shades and shapes and slowly moves to an affect unknown,... becomes a "construct".