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Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...
Psychological injury is considered a mental harm, suffering, damage, impairment, or dysfunction caused to a person as a direct result of some action or failure to act by some individual. The psychological injury must reach a degree of disturbance of the pre-existing psychological/ psychiatric state such that it interferes in some significant ...
Bitterness (also called resentment) is defined as a basic human reaction in response to experiences of injustice, betrayal, or humiliation, consisting of emotions such as anger, wrath, hostility, disappointment, disgust, and shame. However, while “ordinary” bitterness is just a transient emotion, which will eventually fade away ...
Post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) is a state of confusion that occurs immediately following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in which the injured person is disoriented and unable to remember events that occur after the injury. [1] The person may be unable to state their name, where they are, and what time it is. [1]
Trauma most often refers to: Psychological trauma , in psychology and psychiatric medicine, refers to severe mental injury caused by a distressing event Traumatic injury , sudden physical injury caused by an external force, which does not rise to the level of major trauma
Eponymous medical signs are those that are named after a person or persons, usually the physicians who first described them, but occasionally named after a famous patient. This list includes other eponymous entities of diagnostic significance; i.e. tests, reflexes, etc.
Another name for injury phobia is traumatophobia, from Greek τραῦμα (trauma), "wound, hurt" [2] and φόβος (phobos), "fear". [3] It is associated with BII (Blood-Injury-Injection) Phobia. Sufferers exhibit irrational or excessive anxiety and a desire to avoid specific feared objects and situations, to the point of avoiding ...
The bang of firecrackers can be a trauma trigger for some people. People who have experienced trauma and who have developed trauma triggers may panic when the trigger is experienced, especially if it is unexpected. [7] For example, the noise of fireworks may seem unbearable to a combat veteran whose trauma is coupled with sudden, loud noises as ...