I think that you are thinking about "normal" as a typical person with seemingly no problems or challenges. Alot depends on a person's personal experience with "adapting". There is a lot of "study" taking place to try to understand why some people respond to "trama" or "a tramatic experience" better than others. I don't really think there is a "typical" person we can name as "normal" tbh.

What I have read is that it is "normal" to have a difficult time recovering from "a tramatic experience" and it is not unusual for a person to want to refrain from being in a similar situation where they "may" experience a similar trama. In other words "a trama where that person had no sense of control and suffered a great deal of loss as a result.

Sometimes a person "can be" affected by a tramatic experience, but they manage to "block it out" for a long period and can go for "years" living a "normal life". However, they can have something happen that "reminds them" of that trama and then experience an onset of PTSD symptoms as much as 30 years, even more after the tramatic event/events.

It is also "possible" for certain people that are exposed to "constant violence" to become "decensitized" to it on some levels. Whereas someone who is used to a different kind of "quieter" environment may become "tramatized" to the sudden change, because it is not something they ever "knew" how to deal with before.
So it would be "normal" for this "challenge" to take place in someone put into a surrounding that they don't have the coping skills to "understand" or "adapt to".


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