XXX Emotional trauma and shock usually arise from stressful experiences during our earliest development, including prenatal development and birth. XXX Shock is held in the body and reactivated by events in daily life until it is resolved. Shock requires completely different treatment from trauma plus the additional step of deconditioning the physiological shock response. This adrenal drain is a major contributing factor to many conditions and diseases. In fact, the failure to respond to good, deep, otherwise effective therapy is one of the most obvious signals that you are dealing with shock instead of trauma.
Traumas tend to manifest in patterns of behaviour and ways of being in the world.
How a person manifests emotional trauma varies widely - and the same trauma can produce very different patterns from person to person. There are many ways to describe this difference. One way I describe shock is to imagine heating up a pot of water. For a long time, the water is the same - just with more heat. However, at some point, it gets enough heat in it and becomes steam.