posttraumatic stress disorder
Noun 1. an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images (synonym) PTSD (hypernym) anxiety disorder (hyponym) battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock (part-meronym) survivor guilt | ||||
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Posttraumatic stress disorder
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is the term for a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma. The latter may involve someone's actual death or a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defenses are incapable of coping. It is important to make a distinction between PTSD and Traumatic stress, which is a similar condition, but of less intensity and duration. Formerly the condition was sometimes known as shell shock or traumatic war neurosis or post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS).
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