traumatic
Causing lasting distress
Traumatic describes experiences that cause lasting psychological harm or distress: a traumatic childhood, traumatic memories of the accident.
In medicine, traumatic refers to physical injury: traumatic brain injury, traumatic amputation.
Casually, traumatic gets stretched to describe anything upsetting or unpleasant: The interview was traumatic.
Intense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
grief · despair · nightmares · flashbacks · fear · anxiety · panic · sorrow
Restoration of health
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- processingSystematic operation on data
integration · resilience · coping · support · survivor · psychotherapy · desensitization · therapeutic
Violent sudden disturbance
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
critical · ICU · paramedics · ambulance · life-threatening · hemorrhagic · acute · surgical
Unintended harmful event
- assaultViolent offensive act
- abuseCruel or violent treatment
- violenceHarmful physical force
- disasterSudden ruinous event
war · combat · loss · death · abandonment · betrayal · neglect · witnessing
Coiled, or an injury
- fractureSplit in hard material
- concussionBrain injury from impact
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
- amputationSurgical limb removal
hemorrhage · contusion · burn · dislocation · rupture · gash · puncture · crush injury
anguish
Intense mental suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
pain · grief · despair · nightmares · flashbacks · fear · anxiety · panic · sorrow · turmoil
healing
Restoration of health
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- EMDRTrauma therapy using eye movements
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
processing · integration · resilience · coping · support · survivor · psychotherapy · desensitization · therapeutic · recovery
shock
Violent sudden disturbance
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- triageSeverity-based prioritization
- resuscitationRestoring vital functions
stabilization · critical · ICU · paramedics · ambulance · life-threatening · hemorrhagic · acute · surgical · intubation
accident
Unintended harmful event
disaster · war · combat · loss · death · abandonment · betrayal · neglect · witnessing · survivor
wound
Coiled, or an injury
- fractureSplit in hard material
- concussionBrain injury from impact
- lacerationTorn, ragged wound
amputation · hemorrhage · contusion · burn · dislocation · rupture · gash · puncture · crush injury · sprain
- adjectivesbig, urgent, amazing, temporary, bold
- traumaabuse, abandonment, acute stress, amnesia, attachment disorder
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- exhaustingdraining, taxing, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing
- fiercebrutal, violent, savage, ferocious, fierce
- meanmean, cruel, unkind, nasty, hurtful
traumatichealing
Restoration of health
therapeutic · restorative · cathartic · redemptive · wholesome
traumaticnontraumatic
Not causing physical harm
non-traumatic · atraumatic · painless · gentle · harmless
- post-traumatic stressLasting distress after trauma
- traumatic memoryDistressing event recall
- post-traumatic stress disorderLasting distress from trauma
- traumatic stressAnxiety following overwhelming events
- traumatic brain injuryBrain damage from external force
- post traumatic stress
traumatize, traumatized, traumatically, traumatizing, traumatology, traumatizes, traumatization