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With the Khmer Rouge tribunal, [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD] is an important issue to be addressed, and TPO is one of the few NGO's that can take care of this.

Youk Chhang

Put yourself in the shoes of a victim of a very traumatic crime, ... I don't think this increases their confidence in the system.

Mark Larson

It was traumatic and lovely, ... My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Juliette Lewis

This is clearly a traumatic event. He was distraught beyond belief because he knew he could have killed his girlfriend and the mother of their child.

David Nagle

His attitude has been so positive the whole time. Jason just thinks to himself, 'I got these problems, how can I make the best of them.' I was originally worried because a lot of people who suffer from traumatic brain injuries become aggressive, but Jason has exactly the same personality -- a kind, optimistic, lovable guy.

Stephen Poole

If you're in a car crash or some other traumatic event, in order to come to grips with it, you have to look at the facts, at what actually happened. Then you can understand it and move on.

Michael Cascio

2001 has been a brutal year. 2002 will be difficult but hopefully not as traumatic. Early indications are that the worldwide growth of advertising and marketing services expenditure will be flat.

Martin Sorrell

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Ray Lewis

Repeated mild traumatic injury while playing football.

Cyril Wecht

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Alice Miller

Percentage of company killed is likely a powerful variable because it serves as a proxy for various traumatic stressors, such as witnessing death or dismemberment, handling dead bodies, traumatic loss of comrades, realizing one's own imminent death, killing others and being helpless to prevent others' deaths.

Judith Pizarro

Redeploying these valuable taconite plant assets affords a rare opportunity to sharply reduce project development costs while creating new employment opportunities in an area still recovering from the traumatic LTV plant closure.

William Murray

When you go through something that traumatic . . . I was the first family member to go to the hospital and just to see her lying there, they were saying she wasn't going to make it. It's been tough just dealing with all that the past couple of weeks and all the stages you go through, the ups and downs, staying all night at the hospital . . .

Mark Boswell

The murder facts in this case ... are real, real traumatic on jurors and it's hard to handle, ... It gets you emotionally when you see the pictures of the body and learn the treatment.

James Gray

It's a traumatic experience. I mean, they're robbed at gunpoint, and of course, you can see this person, he's all business, he's aggressive. So it's a scary, scary situation.

Mary Mulrenan

The experience of being on these shows is pretty traumatic. I feel for a lot of people who come out of it totally shell-shocked.

Matthew Robinson

The cause of death of all 12 appears to be traumatic asphyxia - they suffocated because they couldn't get out.

Malcolm Midgley

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Richard Geist

I'm definitely expecting to see a lot more traumatic injuries, people with a lot more mental stress, a lot more devastation. But I just feel as though I'm a little better prepared this year than I was last year.

Rob Stoll

But I have made no conscious effort to look battered and bruised. It is just the way one feels when one is put in a certain traumatic situation.

Aishwarya Rai

It's been pretty traumatic for her. Hanging over her head from Day One has been the consistent possibility that she could lose her job.

Peter Simonson

I have three young boys myself and couldn't think of anything more traumatic for Mr. Blair, his family and his son than what is reported in this morning's Sun newspaper.

Matt O'connor

You're not talking one gun. You had three guns here. It was very traumatic for the victim.

Lori Coppinger

It's a difficult thing to do and I felt prepared to do it. But some people think you are embarrassing the university by doing it. It is traumatic and I realize that when I did it that just having this discussion would be traumatic and embarrassing.

Lawrence Krauss

This was not a pickup game or something associated with an after-school program. Right now our main concern is to have the proper infrastructure in place ... to ensure that the staff and students at the school have the emotional support they need on what is going to be a traumatic day.

Bucky Burnsed

The playwright argues that we live in a culture of victimization, sometimes, in which people want to dwell in the trauma, in the traumatic event that has happened to them instead of truly confronting it and moving on.

Jonathon Awori

As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life.

Kelly Preston

Just being on the scene, it was very traumatic and surreal. It felt like a foggy day.

Bryan Scott

A lot of them were kind of distraught because they saw us throw away 20 or more years of their lives. It was pretty traumatic for the people.

Steve Buoni

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.

Mark Serdjenian

It was during Auburn preparation. It was a Tuesday. We were getting ready for practice. Around lunch time, people started watching it and freaking out. We had a big team meeting about it. It was definitely something traumatic. It was really tough to put football aside.

Andrew Whitworth

Obviously 2005 was a traumatic year for this area, it was a tough time for this team. I hope that in some small way the effort of this team in 2006 and beyond will represent this city and this region well.

Sean Payton

This is analogous to what is colloquially known as being punch drunk, ... We believe the microscopic changes in the brain are consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy or a degeneration over time that set the stage for the final result. The meningitis was not bacterial or viral or the kind you see in college dorms or army barracks.

Cyril Wecht

We are in a hurry; we should all be in a hurry to rush assistance to victims. They should not be allowed to go through yet another traumatic experience.

Yvette Stevens

What appears to be clear is that he suffered in part as a result from his experience in Vietnam. He had some post-traumatic stress related disorder. Which of course doesn't excuse the crime, but it lends itself to an understanding.

Abe Bonowitz

They've been through some pretty traumatic experiences back home. Tucson is probably a community that most of them are pretty unfamiliar with.

Jeff Gray

His biggest concern is that she would get help. I can't believe they talked 45 hours and still didn't have a verdict. This has been a very traumatic situation ... and it's still not over.

Howard Shapiro

I'm proud of every one of them. It was a great team effort and also a bit of a traumatic experience for them. While one life was saved, they were too late to save another.

Brandon Wilson

Clearly, this is about the most traumatic event a child can experience. Children are resilient and, placed in a warm and nurturing environment where they feel safe and secure and given the appropriate therapy, and it can be very long-term, they can respond.

Alane Fagin

They have gone to people fighting illness, experiencing a death in the family, going through a divorce, or perhaps just have some traumatic experience to deal with.

Shirley Letner

I talk a lot to Nova on the telephone. You can't be involved with people during such a traumatic time and not be bonded. And that's part of our services. If you need somebody to talk to in the middle of the night, call us.

Peggy Baker

It was a traumatic experience for all of us.

Vivien Spitz

This government has inherited a number of traumatic issues that those who were in office before us did not have the courage to resolve.

Ivo Sanader

More traumatic than the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Brendan Sullivan

This is a man with post-traumatic stress disorder. He's not used to saying he's gay.

Leon Fresco

His body has been through a traumatic ordeal lately, and you don't want to have a repeat of that. Let's see if he can do more (today). They tell us he'll get stronger every day, so I think we have to wait and see if he's going to be able to play a majority of the game, or any of the game.

Chan Gailey

We don't have any children, so it was a pretty traumatic thing for us.

Karen Simmons

From our perspective, at the moment, it?s business as usual. But the loss of any carrier would certainly be traumatic and we would work hard to replace that service.

David Whitaker

This is obviously going to be a traumatic case. There are going to be some gruesome circumstances.

David Zavoda

You had local officials who were clearly traumatized. The 10,000 number was picked out of the air by someone who was clearly on his way to post-traumatic stress syndrome - and understandably so.

Richard Olson

It can be very traumatic for a family. We keep them back for their own benefit.

Jim Sideras

His influence and his work and his testimonial about the real world, especially war veterans, was instrumental in making sure (post-traumatic stress disorder) became an actual diagnosis in 1980.

Charles R. Figley

[Work] allowed me to put my energies some place and focus them some place and relieve myself for awhile of confronting the traumatic circumstances that were occurring in my life. So work has always been a friend to me.

Bill Bixby

There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury. All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury.

Charles Cox

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

Charles Cox

It certainly has been a traumatic time.

Fran Clader

Shaken-soldier syndrome is a traumatic brain injury that shows in veterans who have survived roadside blasts. In patients who are unconscious but with no penetrating head wounds, it would be extremely helpful for emergency medical technicians to test for a marker to see how severe the injuries are. Then perhaps something can be done early on.

Douglas Anderson

They need to be able to run and to fight. But if you could take them behind the lines for a couple of days, then you could give it to them after a traumatic event.

Dr. Roger Pitman

It's amazing how a traumatic memory can remain very much alive. It doesn't behave like a regular memory. The memory doesn't decay.

Alain Brunet

By the end of the day, we were just numb. We lost a lot of good genetics, calves that died in the fire. That was pretty traumatic, to lose some of our well-established cow families.

Sharon Thomas

She had horrible nightmares in the years that followed the sinking. Doctors said that she probably had them because of the traumatic events.

Joan Randall

It is a very complex problem. For kids with mild ADHD that are sent to school, it may be quite traumatic to try to function in the increasingly structured environment as they move up in grades. It is difficult to find optimal solutions, and the highest levels of expertise and resources are needed.

Dr. George Bartzokis

T-Mobile was the only one that had a plan then. We had no idea how traumatic it would all be. He was the only one with a phone, so he shared it with everyone. He just couldn't say no. T-Mobile was nice enough to give us a half-price deal.

Sue Wilson

The investigation is still continuing. We believe this child met its death from a traumatic experience.

Ken Easterling

We had to remove 12 bodies. They died from traumatic asphyxia.

Malcolm Midgley

We are trying to reopen the window of opportunity to modulate the traumatic memory.

Dr. Roger Pitman

In an industry that is accustomed to a daily diet of ratings, it becomes a little traumatic for everyone when you don't get them on time.

David Poltrack

The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.

Daniel Bell

Now we're seeing post-traumatic stress-type stuff, a lot of babies with fevers, general viral-type stuff and dehydration.

George Ward

This has been a traumatic experience and it is not going to go away overnight.

Jim Stafford

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

Adrian Smith

They may suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. Their ability to concentrate in school, their academics, social functioning, their relationships in general with people, may all be impacted.

Kathi Paige

Today, we saw a son who was extremely distressed at the guilt he feels for not having been able to save his father from the force of the tsunami. Such people urgently need a support system to help them cope with this traumatic experience.

Aphaluck Bhatiasevi

The cause of death of the six victims is listed as multiple traumatic injuries and the manner of death is listed as homicide.

John Bowman

Gustavo Franco had a good relationship with international banks and this change is very traumatic. Everything now is going to be related to Fernando Henrique (Cardoso)'s stance and that of Congress.

Adauto Lima

That was a little traumatic because we hit a shot at the buzzer to win it.

Brent Walker

He wasn't a boxer, but that's a general term that we would use to denote changes in the brain of a degenerative nature, ... They can be from one intensely traumatic injury, or they can be from repetitive and cumulative injuries, which is what we believe happened here.

Cyril Wecht

They help with mental health issues like stress. As you know, we have a number of embassies that have been attacked and bombed, so post-traumatic stress relief with employees and their families is an important part of the work they do.

Laurence G. Brown

More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems ... The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

Bruce Perry

The hurricane was so big and traumatic it could jolt the relaxed political culture.

Ron Faucheux

We do have professionals on scene that will work with them to do some post traumatic stress counseling. We're here to protect them.

Ed Moffitt

It's going to be a traumatic time for everyone, there's no doubt about that.

Fred Mcmahon

Early season bravery has caused some of the most traumatic injuries I've seen in 21 years in the ski business. Injuries in the first part of the season occur at both ends of the spectrum. Beginners often get hurt because they don't know how to fall or they are in over their heads. Better riders get hurt because they are over confident and push their limits to far.

Ed Youmans