The survival response to trauma keeps the mind intensely focused on the embodied emergency of the organism and the seemingly self-evident suffering of the personal self.
Self-identity with the intensity of pain and strong emotion further pollutes the psychological self with a victim-self-consciousness that strengthens the disconnection and duality of subject/object that is itself the fearful ego.
..which is too shallow, too much in the ebb and flow and details of personal existence to know the peace of formless being prior and irrelevant to experience.