Traumatic Event

A traumatic event is an event that is or may be a cause of trauma. The term may refer to one of the followiong:

  • Trauma (medicine), an event associated with a physical trauma
  • Psychological trauma, an event associated with a psychological trauma


Famous quotes containing the words traumatic and/or event:

    “There’s a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”
    —Diane Arbus (1923–1971)

    “This event advertises me that there is such a fact as death,—the possibility of a man’s dying. It seems as if no man had ever died in America before; for in order to die you must first have lived.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)