acute stress disorder

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noun Psychiatry.

an anxiety disorder marked by dissociative symptoms and occurring within one month of exposure to a traumatic event, which, if persistent, can become posttraumatic stress disorder.

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What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Yes, cops are under stress and tension (though their jobs are far less dangerous than normally supposed).
We Need Our Police to Be Better Than This|Nick Gillespie|December 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis the quantity is usually very large.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
If so, it is to be hoped that, wise man as you are, the first attack of this disorder was also your last.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Are you quite sure you have never suffered from this rather common disorder, gentle reader, at least, if you be of the male sex?
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The key to all our human disorder is organized education, comprehensive and universal.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood

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