Mental Health Insights
The Naum Centre's growing library of evidence-informed articles designed to help you better understand mental health, relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Explore practical strategies, concepts, and everyday tools covering topics such as anxiety, ADHD, trauma, grief, boundaries, stress, identity and personal growth.
Whether you're looking to better understand yourself, support someone else, or complement your counselling journey, our articles aim to make mental health knowledge accessible, practical and relevant to everyday life.
What’s the Difference Between Trauma and PTSD?
Trauma and PTSD get used interchangeably, but they're not the same thing.
Trauma describes the impact of an overwhelming experience; PTSD is one specific, diagnosable outcome that only some people go on to develop. Most people who live through something difficult don't meet the criteria for PTSD, and that doesn't make their experience any less real. Here's how the two actually differ.