traumatic
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Detours into Lindsay’s traumatic childhood, for example, and into her current profession as an audiobook narrator seem somewhat extraneous.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
PTSD, a mental health condition that is attributable to events, can mean that traumatic incidents can come to mind at any time, said Dr Michael Duffy.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
The AI’s misidentification and the human decisions that followed turned a normal evening into a traumatic confrontation.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Early proof of concept experiments also suggested that the same approach may one day be useful for other inflammation driven conditions, including traumatic brain injury and pulmonary arterial hypertension.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
I can’t place the memory specifically in time; I imagine this is one of those traumatic moments that Dr. Keyes worked so hard to help me forget, but somehow it still lingers.
From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson
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