Sentence examples for defining trauma from inspiring English sources
She also carried a great weight from her childhood, a boating accident that was its defining trauma.
It fits with the underlying theme of a main character who deals with other people's traumas, but cannot escape the defining trauma of her own life.
'I didn't dwell on it too much,' he says, 'but let's just say I breathed a sigh of relief.' He was finally ready to come to terms with the other defining trauma of his life and become a father again.
Its materials aren't only photographic and documentary — besides the personal testimonies, there are also scraps from journals, drawings, family photos and report cards, creating a kaleidoscopic presentation of the effects of a transformative, and sometimes defining, trauma.
He came that close, he believed, when his father (the model for Mr Micawber in "David Copperfield") was imprisoned for debt and, as was customary, the family joined him except for young Charles who took lodgings and was set to work in a blacking factory.It was the defining trauma of his life.
"Peppermint Candy" (1999) mingles personal and national history, recounting the life of a troubled man in reverse chronology, through two decades of defining traumas.
For many if not most Americans over 40, the Vietnam War was a life-defining trauma.
The findings, he added, raise questions about how researchers define trauma and suggest a need to distinguish more clearly between emotional distress, a normal response to horrific events, and stress disorder, a pathological response.
In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defined trauma as "a recognizable stressor that would evoke significant symptoms of distress in almost everyone" — universally toxic, like a poison.
Observation and interview data gathered between February 2015 and August 2016 indicate that CCM providers define trauma expansively to include individual experiences of violence such as childhood abuse and neglect or recent assault, traumatization in the course of accessing health care and structural violence.
