posttraumatic stress disorder
postt·rau·ma·ticstressdisorder
noun
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
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