trauma
| In psychiatry, a painful emotional experience or shock with lasting psychic consequences; in medicine, any physical damage or injury. |
| In psychiatric terms a trauma may have long-lasting effects, during which an insignificant event triggers the original distress. A person then may have difficulties in normal life, such as in establishing relationships or sleeping. In psychological terms this is known as post-traumatic stress disorder. It can be treated by psychotherapy. |
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