PTSD
PTSD is the initialism 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
Words formed from PTSD
Questions about PTSD
- What is PTSD the initialism of?
- PTSD is the initialism of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Words near PTSD in the dictionary
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