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The wound that keeps billing you after the injury healed.
means A lasting psychological injury caused by a deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
from Borrowed directly from Greek 'trauma,' meaning 'wound,' from the verb 'titrōskein,' to wound or pierce. For centuries it stayed a surgeon's word, describing torn flesh. It wasn't until the late 1800s that physicians and early psychologists extended it inward, applying the same word for a gash in the skin to a gash in the mind — on the logic that some injuries don't close, they just stop bleeding where you can see it.
- original meaning
- Greek word literally just meant physical wound
- body keeps score
- stores stress as muscle tension, not just memory
- overuse warning
- therapists warn casual use dilutes clinical meaning
- not the event
- trauma is the response, not what happened