"Emotional scarring" refers to the lasting emotional impact or harm that someone experiences due to a traumatic or distressing event. It can cause them to feel pain, fear, or distress even after the event has passed.
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The moments when you get to explore the
deep emotional scar tissue in each character's brain is a fascinating experience.
Yet, if it is not handled well, divorce can leave
emotional scars on every member of a family.
That stress is not only felt among the parents, but also in your children whose fate is being decided, which can leave them with long
lasting emotional scars.
After an accident, injury victims are commonly left with physical, psychological, and
emotional scars as well.
All I can offer is my sympathy and understanding because I too have children with those
lifelong emotional scars caused by those who refused to try to understand.
The life you've wanted can seem out of reach due to
past emotional scars, loss of hope, being stuck in behaviors that aren't helpful.
Recent studies confirm that dogs confined in puppy mills for breeding purposes demonstrate impaired health and diminished welfare and
carry emotional scars for years.
Her parents fought all the time, and their struggles let
emotional scars in everyone involved.
I'd do the same for a kid being physically attacked - the only difference is that
emotional scars tend to heal faster than mental ones.
Adults who suffered sexual abuse in childhood often carry
deep emotional scars, which impact their lives in many ways.
Since its inception, they have rescued more than 12,000 dogs, many of whom suffer from severe physical and
emotional scars as a result of their past lives.
The life you've wanted can seem out of reach due to
past emotional scars, loss of hope, being stuck in behaviors that....
Just back from combat, Justin, a young U.S. Marine veteran - burdened by the physical and
emotional scars of war - faces a new battle to find purpose in the mundane existence of civilian life during a time of national economic strife.
Incontinence, which can again
cause emotional scarring as well as obvious physical problems that patients have to endure
We all have «baggage» from our pasts, and we construct walls of
emotional scar tissue to close over our unhealed wounds.
Additionally, it can be supportive to help heal and resolve
old emotional scars that might be impeding our way.
The potential downside to dating over 40 is that you may meet people with
more emotional scars due to multiple heartbreaks or divorce.
Synopsis: The
many emotional scars left by South Africa's history of institutionalized racism come under the microscope in this drama.
They, alcoholic Tommy (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), and wounded warrior Rico (Victor Rasuk)
share emotional scarring from their time in the shit, depicted in an intense, expertly executed Tikrit - set action sequence.
In a joint interview with Cooper, the director of «Crazy Heart» and «Out of the Furnace,» the two discussed the challenges of portraying a folk - hero criminal who has, as Cooper said, «left a
real emotional scar on the city of Boston.»
But while the drug is able to erase the experience of her rape from Jenny's memory, the physical and
emotional scars remain.
The Humane Society of Harford County often has animals that get overlooked because of their special needs — even though a missing leg, blindness, diabetes, or
emotional scars make them no less loving or lovable.
The impacts that the Coalition makes are: good counsel and direction towards resources to
edify emotional scars; while gaining wisdom on personal and legal improvement with protocol.
I was well past thirty when I realized that every person I had known who struggled in his or her ability to show and receive love derived that struggle from deep - rooted
childhood emotional scars.
Initially, Bowlby was ignored or criticized for his ideas particularly his «Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis» which claimed that children who are deprived of responsive and sensitive mothers (or primary caregivers) will
experience emotional scarring that will affect all other relationships, even into adulthood.
«Wounded lives, grieving hearts and past
emotional scars do not have to become a permanent part of your future.
Harry bears the physical and
emotional scars of a terrible childhood accident but finds relief and rescue in his band, the Scar Boys.
Burdened with
emotional scars from early life tragedy, a callous foster care system, and Obsessive - Compulsive Personality Disorder, Sticky manages to transcend his limitations whenever he has a ball in his hands.
«Experiences and events can leave
lasting emotional scars that could lead to ineffective coping skills, including drug use and addiction.
Even when abusers turn their violence against family pets it still
leaves emotional scars on the human victims and their children.
Over the years, Ferber's method of sleep training has sparked controversy among parents, pediatricians, and sleep experts alike: Some swear by the Ferber approach, while others claim that it creates
lifelong emotional scars.
It has left
deep emotional scars on survivors, victims» families, the LGBTQ community, and other Orlando residents.