Some factors that increase risk for PTSD include: 1  Living through dangerous events and traumas. 2  Getting hurt. 3  Seeing another person hurt, or seeing a dead body. 4  Childhood trauma. 5  Feeling horror, helplessness, or extreme fear. 6  Having little or no social support after the event.
Noun. 1. sublimity-nobility in thought or feeling or style. magnanimousness, nobleness, grandeur, nobility-the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct.
For other uses, see Sublimation (disambiguation) . In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.or other uses, see Sublimation (disambiguation) . In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.