Traumatic
adjective
Causing severe emotional shock and distress.
The car accident was traumatic for everyone involved.
Often appears as...
- traumatic event
- traumatic experience
adjective
Involving physical injury or wound to the body.
He suffered a traumatic brain injury in the fall.
Often appears as...
- traumatic injury
- traumatic brain injury
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Causing severe emotional shock and distress.
The car accident was traumatic for everyone involved.
Often appears as...
- traumatic event
- traumatic experience
adjective
Involving physical injury or wound to the body.
He suffered a traumatic brain injury in the fall.
Often appears as...
- traumatic injury
- traumatic brain injury
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Used when something negatively affects someone's feelings deeply, more than just upsetting.
Hearing the news was traumatic.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Often relates to bad past events that still affect someone's emotions in the present.
She's dealing with traumatic memories.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describes experiences that are so severe, they can lead to lasting emotional effects.
Survivors face traumatic stress after the disaster.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Used when something negatively affects someone's feelings deeply, more than just upsetting.
Hearing the news was traumatic.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Often relates to bad past events that still affect someone's emotions in the present.
She's dealing with traumatic memories.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describes experiences that are so severe, they can lead to lasting emotional effects.
Survivors face traumatic stress after the disaster.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Impact
Used when something negatively affects someone's feelings deeply, more than just upsetting.
Hearing the news was traumatic.
Pro Tip 2/3Past Events
Often relates to bad past events that still affect someone's emotions in the present.
She's dealing with traumatic memories.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
Describes experiences that are so severe, they can lead to lasting emotional effects.
Survivors face traumatic stress after the disaster.
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This could be why you're...
But apparently, it's super painful to work under water when you've got an artificial limb, and I'm guessing it was pretty traumatic to go back and work in the field where he got blown up. The guy started to cry all day, he refused to get out of bed, he developed all the symptoms of classic depression. The Cambodian doctor said,
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The voices in my head PIPE...
I used to say that these people saved me, but what I now know is they did something even more important in that they empowered me to save myself, and crucially, they helped me to understand something which I'd always that my voices were a meaningful response to traumatic life events, particularly childhood events,
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Heal your brain with...
memories so no flashbacks no nightmares I think we should all share this tip as widely as possible as soon as possible after you see or experience something traumatic play a visually absorbing pattern matching game like Tetris candy crush saga should work too and this can help you avoid the most painful symptoms
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The game that can give...
in such serious, and in some cases life-and-death, circumstances? I mean, if it hadn't worked for me, there's no way I would have believed it was possible. Well, it turns out there's some science here, too. Some people get stronger and happier after a traumatic event.
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What does it mean to be...
to help them cross borders. Whereas some people seek safety with their families, others attempt passage alone and leave their loved ones behind with the hopes of being reunited later. This separation can be traumatic and unbearably long.
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We don't "move on" from...
people are experiencing deeply formative and traumatic losses every day. And as part of my job, this weird podcast that I have, I sometimes talk to people about the worst thing that's ever happened to them.
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Rethinking infidelity...
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self. So my patient Fernando, he's plagued. He goes "I thought I knew my life.
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What’s that ringing in...
subjective tinnitus has no inherently negative consequences. But for some, tinnitus episodes can trigger traumatic memories or otherwise distressing feelings, which increase the sound’s intrusiveness.
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Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
matriarch is a traumatic event and elephants have recently been observed visiting and caressing the bones of their departed friends this expression of elephant grief makes a strong
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EXCLUSIVE: Male Polar...
the loss of a cub is very traumatic for her but the important thing is for her to save her own life and she quickly
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This could be why you're...
But apparently, it's super painful to work under water when you've got an artificial limb, and I'm guessing it was pretty traumatic to go back and work in the field where he got blown up. The guy started to cry all day, he refused to get out of bed, he developed all the symptoms of classic depression. The Cambodian doctor said,
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
I used to say that these people saved me, but what I now know is they did something even more important in that they empowered me to save myself, and crucially, they helped me to understand something which I'd always that my voices were a meaningful response to traumatic life events, particularly childhood events,
Video examples
Heal your brain with...
memories so no flashbacks no nightmares I think we should all share this tip as widely as possible as soon as possible after you see or experience something traumatic play a visually absorbing pattern matching game like Tetris candy crush saga should work too and this can help you avoid the most painful symptoms
Video examples
The game that can give...
in such serious, and in some cases life-and-death, circumstances? I mean, if it hadn't worked for me, there's no way I would have believed it was possible. Well, it turns out there's some science here, too. Some people get stronger and happier after a traumatic event.
Video examples
What does it mean to be...
to help them cross borders. Whereas some people seek safety with their families, others attempt passage alone and leave their loved ones behind with the hopes of being reunited later. This separation can be traumatic and unbearably long.
Video examples
We don't "move on" from...
people are experiencing deeply formative and traumatic losses every day. And as part of my job, this weird podcast that I have, I sometimes talk to people about the worst thing that's ever happened to them.
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
But if throughout history, infidelity has always been painful, today it is often traumatic, because it threatens our sense of self. So my patient Fernando, he's plagued. He goes "I thought I knew my life.
Video examples
What’s that ringing in...
subjective tinnitus has no inherently negative consequences. But for some, tinnitus episodes can trigger traumatic memories or otherwise distressing feelings, which increase the sound’s intrusiveness.
Video examples
Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
matriarch is a traumatic event and elephants have recently been observed visiting and caressing the bones of their departed friends this expression of elephant grief makes a strong
Video examples
EXCLUSIVE: Male Polar...
the loss of a cub is very traumatic for her but the important thing is for her to save her own life and she quickly
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Quote examples
Emma Hayes
English Businesswoman
Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn't absorb shock. So no matter what, I've thought about this a lot, it doesn't matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn't play the game I loved. And I didn't know how to handle that as a teenager.
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Eva Hesse
American Sculptor
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
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Rob Bell
American Author
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
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Judy Woodruff
American Journalist
As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
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Gok Wan
British Author
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to relive all those moments and you know what the outcome is.
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Julia Fox
Italian Actress
If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
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Jeff Bauman
American Author
I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.
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Isabel Gillies
American Actress
When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
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Frank Lowy
Australian Businessman
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
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Paul Rudd
American Actor
Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
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Emma Hayes
English Businesswoman
Every time I smacked my right foot to the ground I couldn't absorb shock. So no matter what, I've thought about this a lot, it doesn't matter what my life in football would have looked like, it was so traumatic for me that I just couldn't play the game I loved. And I didn't know how to handle that as a teenager.
Quote examples
Eva Hesse
American Sculptor
I have the most openness about my art... It's total freedom and willingness to work. I'm willing really to walk on the edge, and if I haven't achieved it, that's where I want to go. But in my life - maybe because my life has been so traumatic, so absurd - there hasn't been one normal, happy thing.
Quote examples
Rob Bell
American Author
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
Quote examples
Judy Woodruff
American Journalist
As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.
Quote examples
Gok Wan
British Author
Writing about traumatic events in your life is actually much harder than being there the first time round because you have to relive all those moments and you know what the outcome is.
Quote examples
Julia Fox
Italian Actress
If my boyfriend was kicking me out of our house, I wouldn't leave peacefully and leave a note. I would have trashed the place. It would have been a lot more traumatic.
Quote examples
Jeff Bauman
American Author
I just want people to know that I'm OK, and if I can get through something this traumatic, anybody can get through what's going on in their life.
Quote examples
Isabel Gillies
American Actress
When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.
Quote examples
Frank Lowy
Australian Businessman
The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.
Quote examples
Paul Rudd
American Actor
Anything traumatic in my life I've always dealt with through jokes and comedy.
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