What is ptsd? (post traumatic stress disorder)?
PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD is an anxiety disorder in which the defining characteristic is an individual re-experiencing or reliving a previous traumatic event in their lives. This reliving includes feeling the fear and discomfort of the original event, and occurs in the forms of flashbacks (the sense you are nearly completely back at the original traumatic event), nightmares, and increasingly intrusive thoughts. Nearly any event that involves actual or threatened harm and where the persons reaction includes intense fear, helplessness, or horror can be a cause for the disorder. Experiencing some level of PTSD is actually quite common, with about 15% of people likely to face it at some point in their lives.
