NOUN
- an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
How To Use posttraumatic stress disorder In A Sentence
- Researchers and service providers consistently find high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and other psychological problems among prostitutes.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder develops in response to experiencing, witnessing or even learning about a terrifying event.
- It was to address the psychological trauma, then newly labeled as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD], that haunted him and to help him "grieve" that much of his life had been blown away along with his face. Bryant Welch: Vets with PTSD: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again--Tell Him to 'Think Positively
- Everyday strivings in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: Problems arise when avoidance and emotion regulation dominate. Todd Kashdan: The Problem with Happiness
