In Herman's second chapter of Terror, she begins to delve into to effects of trauma in themselves but also looks into the storing away of these traumas in our memory and the way they bring themselves into our everyday lives without the victim having any realization of it. Though trauma may only seem like a one-time thing, it is incredibly interesting to learn that even though trauma may only actually happen once, it still finds a way to hide itself in our memories and come through when we least expect it. Herman spoke of children who had experienced trauma around the age of five who could not remember anything before the age of two or one and a half which is when their traumas occurred. These children had no recollection of the trauma in its events or details but could vividly depict the trauma in the play and interactions with other people. 

This is concerning to me because one child was described as being able to “enact scenes that exactly replicated a pornographic movie made by the babysitter” (Herman, 38). In having children do these things unconsciously yet drawing from memory and not even knowing it, this puts children at risks of doing things without knowing what drove them to do it. This in itself is concerning because it could drive children into early depression and could also cause anxiety as well. Not being able to be in control of your own thoughts and memories is something that could easily deplete anyone’s ability to function. People who suffer from trauma at early ages could spend their life acting a certain way all dependent on the traumatic events from their childhood and have no explanation for their own actions because they can not remember what happened to them. Those memories have been stored deep in their memory and only happen through flashbacks and nightmares, which would effect any normal person in a negative way if they continued to experience traumatic events over and over again through these flashbacks and nightmares (Herman, 39).