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No, it's just trauma and not wanting that to come up at the game table. Simple as that. I had a group before the pandemic where just about everyone had some kind of trauma and this is 100000% not the kind of thing they or I would enjoy.
I still don't understand why creating rumours about your character would be triggering for anyone.
How would a made up stories like "Borun caught a cheater at dice and string him up upside down hanging from the flag pole" or "Borun's horse went lame, but instead of putting him down, he paid a farmer to take care of him for life" bring up trauma? Especially since you're writing these yourself...
Or is the existence of rumours triggering somehow? In which case, maybe P&P RPGs aren't an appropriate activity since a lot of adventures rely on piecing together rumours to identify what's really going on.