"big trauma" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used to describe a particularly large or distressing traumatic experience. For example: "The victim experienced a big trauma when their home was destroyed by a natural disaster."
It was a big trauma, and Andy changed.
But in Britain's case, these were hardly mortal: Thatcherism's big trauma was the poll tax, a quarrel over municipal finances.
"I've been married for nearly 30 years and neither of us wanted kids, so it wasn't a big trauma," she explains.
"People think that leaving home to go off to school is the big trauma, but the majority of kids do fairly well adjusting to college by the end of the first month, and their parents start to adjust, too," says Laura Kastner, a therapist who is co-author of "The Launching Years: Strategies for Parenting From Senior Year to College Life".
It's an unusually high percentage, even for a population that's suffered a big trauma.
Silas, Amara and Qetsiyah are finally gone so things should be good, but this is Mystic Falls where the next big trauma is just around the corner.
She had the cockney cockroach-like ability to claw her way back from life's big traumas, which she suffered in spades.
Unlike most cartoonists, the Pulitizer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, 56, tends to focus on the big traumas of contemporary history and their impact on his life.
The catastrophe, over time, served to further temper Haligonians as a people hardened by the rough weather and big traumas of the high latitudes.
Although study participants sometimes write about big traumas and shameful secrets from child abuse to their experiences at war you can also write about whatever is frustrating or preoccupying you at the moment.
Were there any big traumas around money when you were growing up, like a divorce or death or child support battle or job loss?
