Psychological trauma
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Psychological trauma (mental trauma, psychotrauma, or psychiatric trauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events such as accidents, violence, sexual assault, terror, or sensory overload.
Short-term reactions such as psychological shock and psychological denial are typically followed. Long-term reactions and effects include bipolar disorder, uncontrollable flashbacks, panic attacks, insomnia, nightmare disorder, difficulties with interpersonal relationships, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Physical symptoms including migraines, hyperventilation, hyperhidrosis, and nausea are often developed.
See also
- Comfort object
- Emotion and memory
- Existential crisis
- Historical trauma
- Identification with the Aggressor
- Psychogenic pain
- Psychological pain
- Psychological trauma in older adults
- Psychoneuroimmunology
- Psychosomatic medicine
- Rape trauma syndrome
- Religious trauma syndrome
- Screen memory
- Stress (biology)
- Suicide and trauma
- Thousand-yard stare
- Transgenerational trauma
- Trauma systems therapy
- Unthought known
