The story
Coined by German psychologist and psychiatrist Michael Linden in 2003 (→DOI) together with its German equivalent posttraumatische Verbitterungsstörung.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
post-traumatic embitterment disorder
Today it means: A chronic maladaptive response to a severe manifestation of a usual life occurrence shattering a core belief leading to intrusion and on the flip-side disregard for one’s own condition. Full definition →