Upstream, you can actually choose to let people vote for more than one option in a poll. That might have been better in this case, especially for people with multiple traumas. Also, I guess you are excluding military, police, rescue workers and those were not traumatized by a person(s)? Why is that? Are you interested in the nature of people who abuse others? I think the poll is good too except I don't understand the purpose of it exactly either.

I wasn't sure how to vote. I was shot by my stepdad, that is my major trauma. He was a soldier and my family believes he has PTSD though he was never diagnosed. I feel like the top 5 options all fit him in some respects, but not any of them totally. He was sick, but he had been well for most of my life. So he was normal prior to the events. He was depressed and suicidal when he shot me. Did he know what he was doing? I don't know, he committed suicide at the scene. Was he drinking? Yes, quite heavily for about a year before the trauma. Was he mentally ill? Yes if he had PTSD, but I don't feel comfortable exactly placing him in the same category as say, a schizophrenic. My cousin has schizophrenia and it's a completely different illness. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about it too much but I'm confused as to how to answer.