post-traumatic stress disorders
post-traumatic stress disorders is the plural of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Meaning of post-traumatic stress disorder
Noun
post-traumatic stress disorder (usually uncountable, plural post-traumatic stress disorders)
- A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or a lack of concentration.
- That 200,000 public school students have been identified with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder since Sept. 11 should serve as a wake-up call for school-based mental health services for all students. We must not allow Sept. 11 to eclipse the post-traumatic stress disorders suffered by...2002 May 15, Christine Schmidt, “Post-Sept. 11 Trauma”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 20 May 2002, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May...
- Synonyms:
- post-traumatic stress syndrome, PTSD
Questions about post-traumatic stress disorders
- What is post-traumatic stress disorders the plural of?
- Post-traumatic stress disorders is the plural of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Words near post-traumatic stress disorders in the dictionary
- post-traumatic
- post-traumatic embitterment disorder
- post-traumatic embitterment disorders
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- post-traumatic stress disordered
- post-traumatic stress disorders
- post-traumatic stress syndrome
- post-traumatic-stress disorder
- post-traumatic-stress disorders
- post-trial
- post-tropical
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