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)
“Don’t you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)