PTSD

Alternative names
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Definition
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a psychiatric illness that can occur following a traumatic event in which there was threat of injury or death to you or someone else.

see Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.

Johns Hopkins patient information

Last revised: December 7, 2012
by Sharon M. Smith, M.D.

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