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View definitions for post-traumatic stress syndrome

post-traumatic stress syndrome

noun as in post-traumatic stress disorder

noun as in shell shock

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Prosecutor Travis White said the boy, now 7, had problems with “basic socialization” and suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome and insomnia, among other disorders.

As the claim outlines, the detective suffers from lingering post-traumatic stress syndrome.

American troops sent to Afghanistan, Iraq and so many other countries came home suffering everything from literal wounds to severe post-traumatic stress syndrome.

From Salon

A symptom of post-traumatic stress syndrome, some experts regard nightmares as the mind’s effort to make meaning and help feelings become less intense.

From Slate

Her testimony resumed Thursday, when she told jurors that Rapp experienced delayed-onset post-traumatic stress syndrome that was triggered by reports that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein had been accused of sexual abuse by numerous women.

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