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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma. This stressor may involve someone's actual death or a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defenses are incapable of coping. In some cases it can also be from profound psychological and emotional trauma, apart from any actual physical harm. Often, however, the two are combined. ...more from Wikipedia

Fast Facts:

• Can occur at any age, including childhood.¹
• Symptoms include: Nightmares, persistent daily thoughts; persistent memories, flashbacks, emotionally numbness, detachment, trouble feeling affectionate, startling easily, irritability, aggression, losing interest, feelings of intense guilt, headaches, gastrointestinal complaints, immune system problems, dizziness, chest pain, body aches, social problems, and sleep problems.²
• Symptoms may not occur until years after the event.³

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