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post-traumatic stress
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  • Why PTSD is so prominent in some people and why it's not in others.†   (source)
  • She knew that sometimes war had a way of crawling into a soldier's psyche, making it hard to readapt to the civilian world, but he showed no sign of any post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • Today a battle-scarred Ira Hayes would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there would be understanding and treatment available to him.†   (source)
  • She had actually used the words post-traumatic stress a year before but I had dismissed them as so much psychobabble.†   (source)
  • A determination had been made that Katelya McTiernan wasn't psychotic, but that she was suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome.†   (source)
  • It didn't even occur to me that it was something supernatural—I thought it was posttraumatic stress or something.†   (source)
  • Then she'd told us about the stages of grief, loaded us up with pamphlets on post-traumatic stress disorder, and recommended a grief counselor at the hospital for Mia to see.†   (source)
  • He's reportedly suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder; I wouldn't put anything past him."†   (source)
  • He has a doctorate in epidemiology from Harvard, and now researches post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans.†   (source)
  • He began to tremble, the trained psychiatrically oriented part of him telling him it was posttraumatic stress.†   (source)
  • I just flipped out …. from some sort of post-traumatic stress from my treatment as a child.†   (source)
  • It's a defense mechanism, a gift from nature around post-traumatic stress.†   (source)
  • "PTSD," he said as soon as I walked into his office.†   (source)
  • She suffered from a particularly acute combination of psychotic depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • Part of the problem was post-traumatic stress.†   (source)
  • A jealous father suffering from PTSD, caving in to his true nature by taking his own daughter.†   (source)
  • Peter was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • The bottom line for both is post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • 'Part of it is the PTSD-Peter's response to chronic victimization.†   (source)
  • That's very common for patients with PTSD.'†   (source)
  • For example, for some, a violent rape might trigger PTSD.†   (source)
  • With each modern war the term has changed, from shell shock to battle fatigue in World War II and Korea to post-traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam, and each time the illness had its believers and its detractors.†   (source)
  • The petition detailed Herbert's military service and explained why military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are worthy of compassion.†   (source)
  • And in a 1987 study, eight in ten former Pacific POWs had "psychiatric impairment," six in ten had anxiety disorders, more than one in four had PTSD, and nearly one in five was depressed.†   (source)
  • Cunningham clearly can't use shell shock and is even too far out of the Vietnam era for PTSD to have much resonance.†   (source)
  • I discussed Dante's prior diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder following the attempted murder of his mother in my oral argument before the Mississippi Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • Nearly forty years after the war, more than 85 percent of former Pacific POWs in one study suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), characterized in part by flashbacks, anxiety, and nightmares.†   (source)
  • Some PTSD victims go into a dissociative state if the stressor is severe enough, and if it's repeated.†   (source)
  • I had post-traumatic stress disorder, but the only way I would believe it was to discover it on my own.†   (source)
  • It's called posttraumatic stress.†   (source)
  • They came Cole's way after their three months of assistance from the resettlement agencies had expired, often broke, often depressed or dealing with post-traumatic stress.†   (source)
  • "It says," answered Gabriel evenly, "that you are suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, which, given what you went through in Syria and America, is entirely understandable."†   (source)
  • She had volunteered—naively, as she would admit—to help these boys on the field and off, unaware of the scope and intractability of their difficulties: post-traumatic stress, poverty, parental neglect in some cases, grief, shattered confidence, and, in more than one instance, simple anger at having to live the way they did.†   (source)
  • They also have an extreme startle response to unexpected stimuli … People with post-traumatic stress disorder take longer to fall asleep, are more sensitive to noise, and awaken more frequently during the night than ordinary people.†   (source)
  • I spent a week in the main reading room of the New York Public Library plotting a novel that would use PTSD as the great equalizer, bringing together women and men who suffered from the same disorder.†   (source)
  • He's going to explain to you that Peter was suffering from an illness called post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • He had written more papers than any other forensic psychiatrist with a specialty in post-traumatic stress disorder.†   (source)
  • It was a specific tangent of post-traumatic stress disorder, one that suggested a woman who'd been repeatedly victimized both mentally and physically might so constantly fear for her life that the line between reality and fantasy blurred, to the point where she felt threatened even when the threat was dormant, or in Joe Riccobono's case, as he lay sleeping off a three-day drinking spree.†   (source)
  • For example, we've all heard of soldiers who come home from war and can't adjust to the world because of PTSD.†   (source)
  • A child who suffers from PTSD has made unsuccessful attempts to get help, and as the victimization continues, he stops asking for it.†   (source)
  • 'You said that part of your diagnosis of PTSD came from the fact that the defendant was attempting to get help, and couldn't.†   (source)
  • A child who is suffering from PTSD, like Peter, is terrified that the bully is going to kill him eventually.†   (source)
  • 'The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.†   (source)
  • You also said that part of your diagnosis of PTSD was illustrated by Peter's retreat into a fantasy world, correct?†   (source)
  • People who suffer from PTSD often relive the experience through nightmares, have difficulty sleeping, feel detached.†   (source)
  • Peter's defense hinged on PTSD-how one event might trigger another; how a person who was traumatized might be unable to recall anything about the event at all.†   (source)
  • 'Even when a battered woman is not immediately under physical threat, she psychologically believes she is, thanks to a chronic, escalating pattern of violence that's caused her to suffer from PTSD.†   (source)
  • The truth was, no matter what King Wah had said, no matter how clear the explanation of PTSD, no matter if the jury completely empathized with Peter-Jordan had forgotten one salient point: they would always feel sorrier for the victims.†   (source)
  • During the actual incidents of bullying, a child with PTSD might retreat into an altered state of consciousness-a dissociation from reality to keep him from feeling pain or humiliation while the incident occurs.†   (source)
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