posttraumatic stress disorder Definition

Cancel

posttraumatic stress disorder

noun(post-traumatic stress disorder)

a psychological reaction occurring after experiencing a highly stressing event (such as wartime combat, physical violence, or a natural disaster) that is usually characterized by depression, anxiety, flashbacks, recurrent nightmares, and avoidance of reminders of the event —abbreviation PTSD—called also post-traumatic stress syndrome

Words Related to posttraumatic stress disorder!

ptsd, battle fatigue, stammer, combat fatigue, vexatious, combat neurosis, psychosomatic, shell shock, urticaria, onset, acute, arrhythmia, severe, cardiac, anuria, chorea, contracture, psychogenic, traumatic, asthma, chaos, disease, nervous, peace, quiet, tremor, fracture, fugue, ulcer, accent, accentuate, bear, block, burden, burn, calm, calmly, care, collapse, comfortable, composed, contextualism, cope, coping, deformation, dissociation, distress, duress, ease, easiness, easy, effort, endurance, fatigue, fatigued, fatigues, focus, force, give, harass, hard, hassle, heartache, heat, highlight, highlighting, inflection, intellectualization, lift, luft, nerve, nerves, noise, overplay, peacefulness, pessimism, point, points, press, pressed, pressure, prestressed, primary, relieve, relieved, repeat, resilience, rest, sag, serenity, smap, snap, strain, stressed, stressor, strut, tell, tense, tension, tolerant,

posttraumatic stress disorder Definition

Words Related to posttraumatic stress disorder!

posttraumatic stress disorder Examples by Brain Bank Users