traumatic
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Financial advisers and counselors generally recommend that you don’t make any major life decisions for a year after a traumatic event like the death of a partner.
From MarketWatch
His father Brian said it was an "extremely worrying and traumatic" time and he believed if Joel, who has Down's syndrome, had been vaccinated he would not have needed hospital treatment.
From BBC
“At that time, we needed something separate from the fire — something that the fire couldn’t touch, it was too traumatic to keep revisiting what we’d lost, so our work became our peace and our escape.”
From Los Angeles Times
Now Joan, who lives in South Derbyshire, wants restorative justice to be offered routinely to victims and perpetrators of traumatic crimes, and she is convinced her son would approve.
From BBC
Eleven’s goodbye scene with Mike felt really perfectly full-circle and not traumatic and left the viewers with a question, but still hopeful and satisfied.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
