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What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Trauma is an experience that produces injury to the body or the mind as from violence or an accident.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, known as PTSD for short, is a collection of symptoms that can develop after experiencing a life threatening or violent trauma, or witnessing a life-threatening or violent trauma. These symptoms can develop immediately after the trauma, months, or years after the trauma and they can interfere with everyday life.
Symptoms of PTSD
Intrusive thoughts: thoughts of the trauma that make it difficult for you to think of anything else
Flashbacks: re-experiencing the trauma in part of brief periods of time (seconds...
