trauma
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During evidence at the hearing, the man's daughter Su Christie, said her father, a former merchant navy crewman, had a lifelong fear of showers due to a childhood trauma.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Once the culture picked up on the idea of trauma that is everywhere, therapists really responded to that,” says the University of Minnesota’s Doherty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The formula prefers to stay away from trauma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
I spent a lot of time thinking about that particular credits sequence since Thursday’s news broke, setting its infectious percussion line and sparkling piano riff against my imaginings of Lasha’s trauma.
From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2018
Mornings as the streetcar traversed my ghetto I experienced a mixture of dread and trauma.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
It’s a quiet, contented life, “solid and safe,” Livia says, except that she remains disturbed by traumas from her youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
For some, it has worsened their traumas, it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
That is where we break generational cycles and traumas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
They had grandparents for the kids to stay with, so they did not go—as tens of thousands do each year—into state custody, with the many attendant traumas that entails.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Such overwhelming traumas tear at the bonds that hold cultures together.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
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
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