At other moments, these games can provide, as the writer Tom Bissell said of a scene in the 2010 mystery Heavy Rain, Mr. Cage's previous effort, "maybe the most electric, traumatizing feeling I've ever had while playing a game".
And while I still think he's a damn good actor, our short interaction left me traumatized and feeling like a piece of meat.
Any child already traumatized by feeling unsafe as a result of Hurricane Sandy may well experience this Newtown school massacre even more acutely, with an increased risk of PTSD symptoms.
Others might attach too much to everyone and risk being traumatized by repeated feelings of grief.
A shy girl is very cautious about giving anyone her heart, if you break it, you may seriously hurt her feelings and traumatize her, making her future romances extremely difficult and filled with suspicion.
All feel deep shame, all came out feeling traumatized and worthless, all have struggled with their mental and physical health and all are at varying stages of recovery.
Hold yourself with compassion, just as you would hold a terrified and traumatized child, allowing the feelings to move through.
The mind oscillates from a full blown, emotional re-experiencing of the trauma to a complete numbing of all emotions, as if the mind were trying to protect itself from being re-traumatized by holding all feelings at bay.
Traumatized individuals often develop feelings of self-reproach, guilt, and shame [ 87].
Soon I am feeling traumatized myself.
"I was traumatized," Drake recalls feeling after hearing the diagnosis.
