Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Post traumatic stress (PTSD) is the term for a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma. The latter may involve someone's actual death or a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, or threat to physical and/or psychological integrity, to a degree that usual psychological defenses are incapable of coping. In this section you can learn the warning signs of PTSD and how to combat it.