Believe me, Shooting Star, I know trauma is not just from war. Most of the work I do is trauma work and it is even more difficult now that I am working with families, kids, teens. It is generally unbelievable what people do to each other and this has nothing to do with war or politics. But, for some reason, I am able to deal with it, as there is a very high rate of secondary/vicarious trauma in therapists who do this work. It's probably the same reason my son can come home from a war zone and be "normal" (and I do mean this in the most general sense... ). It's really the way our brain is wired.