Yes, and no. While trauma responses certainly impact some of your thoughts, words, and actions during times of dysregulation, trauma responses cannot be blamed for your general relational shortcomings, character flaws, or moral/ethical deficiencies. Trauma is not a personality or moral disorder. PTSD, for example, is a physical-emotional stress disorder accompanied by symptoms such as intrusive flashbacks that recreate the experience of severe stress, anxiety, and so forth. The disorder disrupts a person’s normal daily functioning and overall well-being while he/she is working to create body-mind regulation and healing. Trauma does not “make” anyone do “bad things.” You are best served not using trauma as an excuse for your life choices and issues (although it may certainly impact many aspects of your life) since multiple factors most likely effect your behavior and ways of “showing up” in the world.