Wounding, stressful (9)

I believe the answer is:

traumatic

(Other definitions for traumatic that I've seen before include "Psychologically painful" , "Direly shocking" , "Psychologically damaging" , "Emotionally shocking" , "Deeply disturbing" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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