post traumatic stress disorder

A form of post-traumatic stress disorder — A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or a lack of concentration.

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Meanings

nounpost traumatic stress disorder (usually uncountable, plural post traumatic stress disorders)

plural post traumatic stress disorders

  1. alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative form of post-traumatic stress disorder.

    While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.

    1997 April 7, Jonathan Rabinovitz, “Hearing Held on Bid to Repress Lawyers in Murder Case”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2014
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