traumagenic

English

Etymology

From trauma +‎ -genic (“generating; generated by”).

Adjective

traumagenic (not comparable)

1. That leads to trauma; trauma-forming.
   • 2022 March 10, Phil Willmot, Lawrence Jones, Trauma-Informed Forensic Practice, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Risk factors will not be realised in the context does not support or trigger them. Oppressive, traumagenic, and trauma-triggering contexts are likely to release processes that realise the negative resource cycles linked with mental health deterioration […] trauma responses to either reminders/triggers or current traumagenic contexts. […]

2. (multiplicity slang) Of a system (“set of alters of a person”): having become multiple due to psychological trauma.

   Antonym: endogenic

   • 2019 February 8, @WanderingChord, Twitter‎^[1]:

     We weren't going to do this, but it needs to be said. Get ready for a thread, it's time to wade into some syscourse on Main. ¶ Let's start by making one thing perfectly clear: we are a traumagenic system.