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Meaning of PTSD

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 Definition: [n]  an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as guilt about surviving or reliving the trauma in dreams or numbness and lack of involvement with reality or recurrent thoughts and images
 
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 Synonyms: posttraumatic stress disorder
 
 See Also: anxiety disorder, battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock

 

 

 

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