Trauma can diminish a person's sense of self and agency, leading to dispiritedness and demoralization.

“That's the impact of trauma. Whether it's big trauma or it's a big event or it's multiple things, like, oh, the world just isn't rewarding me, I'm trying. The world's not rewarding me. I'm trying. The world's not rewarding me. Then people become dispirited, demoralized. It's the trauma of that that takes away the sense of self, the sense of agency. Like, I thought I could do things before, now I don't think I can do things, right.”