trauma
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"We're also hearing so much about people not receiving timely results of investigations and inquiries into their care and that just adds to people's trauma."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Greene-Placentia said she has struggled to remember details; scientists have shown how severe trauma can impact memory.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
This was not an Israel/Palestine debate, this was ‘Help me understand your trauma.’
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The trauma has also taken a toll on his social life.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Sometimes when you have brain trauma, it wipes your short-term memory.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Others are putting their money on Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid, whose work deals with exile, identity and the traumas inherited from colonialism, or on Chinese writer Can Xue.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
There were hardships and traumas, periods of institutionalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
"It's good to help others get through major disasters and traumas."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The Lincoln’s fate has been the most heavily publicized, but it isn’t the only aircraft carrier to suffer these traumas.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
One of the country's least-discussed postwar problems is how frequently combat veterans bring the traumas of war back with them and are incarcerated after returning to their communities.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
The principal causes of primary keratitis are traumata and infection from the conjunctiva.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
We shall refer later on to those other exactly similar cases of cyclical depression which can nevertheless easily be traced back to mental traumata.
From Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
He received several head traumata and suffered from enuresis in his early life.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Absorption takes place from the inner surface of the uterus or from traumata in the genital canal.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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