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post-traumatic embitterment disorder

post-traumatic embitterment disorder noun: a chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.

Noun

post-traumatic embitterment disorder (countable and uncountable, plural post-traumatic embitterment disorders)

  1. A chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.

post-traumatic embitterment disorder meaning in Arabic

post-traumatic embitterment disorder in Arabic

chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a life occurrence leading to intrusion
اِضْطِرَاب الْكَدَر التَّالِيّ لِلصَّدْمَة iḍṭirāb al-kadar at-tāliyy li-ṣ-ṣadma

Forms of post-traumatic embitterment disorder

pluralpost-traumatic embitterment disorders
alternative initialismPTED
alternative formposttraumatic embitterment disorder
alternative formpost traumatic embitterment disorder

Origin of post-traumatic embitterment disorder

Coined by German psychologist and psychiatrist Michael Linden in 2003 (→DOI) together with its German equivalent posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung.

Questions about post-traumatic embitterment disorder

What does post-traumatic embitterment disorder mean?
Post-traumatic embitterment disorder means a chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition.
What is post-traumatic embitterment disorder in Arabic?
Post-traumatic embitterment disorder in Arabic is اِضْطِرَاب الْكَدَر التَّالِيّ لِلصَّدْمَة (iḍṭirāb al-kadar at-tāliyy li-ṣ-ṣadma). See Post-traumatic embitterment disorder meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is post-traumatic embitterment disorder?
Post-traumatic embitterment disorder is a noun.
What is the plural of post-traumatic embitterment disorder?
The plural of post-traumatic embitterment disorder is post-traumatic embitterment disorders.

Words near post-traumatic embitterment disorder in the dictionary

  1. post-translationally
  2. post-transmission
  3. post-transplant
  4. post-transplantation
  5. post-traumatic
  6. post-traumatic embitterment disorder
  7. post-traumatic embitterment disorders
  8. post-traumatic stress disorder
  9. post-traumatic stress disordered
  10. post-traumatic stress disorders
  11. post-traumatic stress syndrome

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