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A disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life-threatening event experiences symptoms such as psychic numbing, reliving the trauma, sense of detachment from others, loss of interest in familiar activities and increased psychological arousal is called

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an extreme stress response to a traumatic event that threatens your safety or makes you feel helpless. The symptoms of PTSD present as a psychiatric condition that can develop following any traumatic, life-threatening, or highly unsafe, catastrophic life experience.

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