Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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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

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Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: PTSD
plural: Posttraumatic Stress Disorders
possessive: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder's
pluralpossessive: Posttraumatic Stress Disorders'

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