Trauma

From Psychology Wiki

This might mean:

• • Physical trauma, an often serious and body-altering physical injury, such as the removal of a limb.
  • Psychological trauma, an emotional or psychological injury, usually resulting from an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation.
  • Post-cult trauma, the intense emotional problems that some members of cults and new religious movements experience upon disaffection and disaffiliation.
  • Blunt force trauma, a type of physical trauma caused by impact or other force applied from or with a blunt object.