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)

    “There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.”
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)