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Overview, Types

by contentuser on Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:56 pm

Questions to Ask Your Doctor about PTSD(Free Handout)

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that a person may develop after experiencing or witnessing an extreme, overwhelming traumatic event during which they felt intense fear, helplessness, or horror.

The dominant features of posttraumatic stress disorder are emotional numbing (i.e., emotional nonresponsiveness), hyperarousal (e.g., irritability, on constant alert for danger), and reexperiencing of the...Read the full article