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trauma

Definition for trauma

noun as in severe mental or physical pain

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Neuroscientists from Columbia University and McGill University have identified a brain chemical that appears to drive depression and suicidal thinking in individuals who faced trauma or hardship during childhood.

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Europe’s economy appears to have survived a jump in U.S. tariffs without entering recession, but if it is to stage a significant recovery households will have to put half a decade of trauma behind them.

Sitting in the silence of his hospital room in the psychiatric ward last year, and in the months that followed, Rose said he began to reflect on the impact of his childhood trauma.

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Television writers, most of whom are men, have long fixated on the perceived trauma inherent to pregnant people pushing a fully formed human from their bodies.

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Later, she came to understand that, like Mr Sood, he was “carrying the trauma” of having been forced to leave his home country as a child.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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