Traumatized Americans and Hysterical Dissociation

Mental dissociation caused by trauma is much more common than most people -- including most doctors -- realize · · · particularly affecting Americans.

Perhaps it is something that is true even of YOU ! · · ·
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what is this great trauma that caused such fear in your theory?
It is not "my theory." It is well established and well studied fact. If you wish to give it a name, call it the work of Pierre Janet and those who came after him.
It is misleading to use the word "fear." "Hysteria" and "dissociation" are things quite different from simple fear.

It would be easier to answer what is not trauma in modern society.

Torture and stress of children by parents is trauma.

Concentration camp public schools and bullying are trauma.

Pharmacology, all too frequently, is trauma.

Crowded freeways, traffic, accidents and near-accidents are trauma.

Military training and warfare are trauma.

Police oppression and brutality are trauma.

The "Injustice" System, and the conditions inside America's Prison Gulags are trauma.

Political hype and threats are trauma.

Television "news" is filled with traumatic images, as is a great deal of so-called "entertainment."

Brain studies have revealed that the very same brain centers which are activated by real traumatic events are also stimulated by violent images on television or other media.

In truth, the brain below the level of consciousness cannot distinguish between real trauma and images of trauma.
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Eating is trauma and can trigger sitophobia.
 

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