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posttraumatic stress disorder
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Noun posttraumatic stress disorder has 1 sense
- posttraumatic stress disorder(n = noun.state) ptsd - 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; Array has parts: survivor guilt
is a kind of anxiety disorder
has particulars: battle fatigue, combat fatigue, combat neurosis, shell shock
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