I love how being "traumatized" and being "desensitized" in dwarf fortress are actually two different things.

like, the more horrible shit happens around your fortress, the more dwarfs will get used to this eventually, which is being described as "they are getting used to tragedy", or "they don't really care about anything anymore" and basically an analogue of me reading the morning news.

on the other hand, you will have dwarves with actual trauma reactions going on, like having flashbacks or having their personalities changed, like this one (kobold, by the way) in my current fort:

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I guess I'm rambling again, but I just think it's really neat. I'm playing this game for years starting from pre-steam classic version and I'm still so deeply fascinated by it.