The phrase "a damaging experience" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an event or situation that has caused harm or negative effects, either emotionally or physically.
Example: "The accident was a damaging experience that left him with lasting emotional scars."
Alternatives: "a harmful experience" or "a detrimental experience."
Her leadership was called into question during the referendum campaign, which proved a damaging experience for an already struggling party.
Collins is asking members of the public to contact the office if they have had a damaging experience as a result of appearing on a reality or makeover show.
It has unquestionably been a damaging experience for one of English football's most powerful men, who had faced severe criticism following newspaper revelations he had exchanged offensive emails with colleagues.
These qualities may be his aid at White Hart Lane because less assured men may have shied away from returning to England so soon after such a damaging experience.
Unsurprisingly, being a minor in a prison built for adults can be a damaging experience.
Sean Sala, an ex-gay survivor who endured a damaging experience with Exodus, confronted Chambers over his approach to "repenting," telling him, "You cannot just say 'I'm sorry' and walk away from 40 years of damage".
The stigma revealed itself again after an odd, and damaging, experience Booker had last spring.
Until something is done to control this free rein that exorcists have over their patients' mental health, thousands more people could end up going through the same damaging experience as Rosalia – a process that doesn't sound very Christian at all.
Rev Dr Malcolm Brown Director of mission & public affairs, Archbishops Council of the Church off England Polly Toynbee ignores the "untold misery" caused to young people by the "freedom" to have sex early and casually: the damaging experience of abortion, the heartache of successive separations from a boy/girlfriend, too-early parenthood, and parents splitting up when children are still at home.
"Martha" follows Olsen's title character in her first few weeks after fleeing from the commune, jumping back in time to provide snippets of her damaging experience there to explain her creeping onset of paranoia.
And communities are crucial to our wellbeing: irrespective of genus, the most psychologically damaging experience any young creature, human or animal, can have is being separated from the group and abandoned to fend for itself.
