PTSD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PTSD mean? 

• PTSD (noun)
  The noun PTSD has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PTSD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTSD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD

Hypernyms ("PTSD" is a kind of...):

anxiety disorder (a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom)

Meronyms (parts of "PTSD"):

survivor guilt (a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "PTSD"):

battle fatigue; combat fatigue; combat neurosis; shell shock (a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare)

 Context examples 

Antibiotics could help prevent and cure people suffering from PTSD, a new study reveals.

(Antibiotics Could Prevent, Cure PTSD, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers also linked the physical PCD symptoms that can persist after TBI to elevated levels of tau, independent of other psychological symptoms such as PTSD and depression.

(Key protein found to have role in long-term complications from traumatic brain injury, NIH)

Chronic insomnia goes hand in hand with various long-term health issues such as heart disease and type 2 diabetes, as well as mental illness such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide.

(Can't Sleep? Could Be Down to Genetics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That doctor can help you become free of a dependence on a substance or work through post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from being on the battlefield, for example.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is caused by an overactive fear memory and includes a broad range of psychological symptoms that can develop after someone goes through a traumatic event.

(Antibiotics Could Prevent, Cure PTSD, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These chronic neurological symptoms have been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — progressive brain degeneration that leads to dementia following repetitive TBIs — independent of other factors such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

(Key protein found to have role in long-term complications from traumatic brain injury, NIH)