Remember that trauma is not the event that happened to you but the way your body responded. If you go into freeze mode and stay stuck there, you've got a traumatised body. Children may experience trauma from surgery, of they are confined, restrained, and unconscious. Obviously an appendectomy under anaesthesia in a safe and clean hospital is not three tours of Afghanistan, and the trauma responses are not identical, but trauma is trauma. What rises to the level of a PTSD dx will vary and IMO the dx is so overused as to make it useless. Anyone whose mental illness may have been made worse by a traumaticevent now has ptsd. The fact remains most people are in some kind of shock and holistic therapies for that can only help us. Everyone benefits from good and sane ptsd treatment.