All 3 Uses of
post-traumatic stress
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- 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.†
p. 347.0 *post-traumatic stress = an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to traumatic experiences
- 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.†
p. 347.0PTSD = post-traumatic stress disorder -- an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to traumatic experiences
- 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.†
p. 347.1