My Physical Trauma Disabled Me
<p>Having a traumatic physical health event can have a deep impact on someone’s mental, emotional, and psychological health. For many, these traumatic health events create long-term and even life-long effects that leave people disabled or in debilitating chronic pain.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trauma" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Trauma</a> is defined as an injury or wound caused by an outside agent; a disordered state resulting from severe emotional stress or physical injury. For the sake of this article, traumatic health events will not include life events like a diagnosis of mental health conditions or other traumas not directly related to physical health conditions. Though these are extremely traumatic life experiences, this article aims to address physical health traumas. Consider examples of traumatic physical health events to be a car accident, limb amputation, sudden hospitalization or medical diagnosis, critical falls, life-altering burns, and sudden loss of senses, among others.</p>
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