post-traumatic stress disorder

noun

1. a psychological condition, characterized by anxiety, withdrawal, and a proneness to physical illness, that may follow a traumatic experience PTSD

Example Sentences

She had only heard of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, in passing.

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This crisis adds to the core of war trauma, and the possibility of ensuing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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He is the author of The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

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The narratives born from the Fort Hood shooting clung desperately to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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He may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, though there is no proof of this yet.

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