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Post-traumatic stress disorder: a psychiatric disorder requiring urgent attention

Jun Du, Huapeng Diao, Xiaojuan Zhou, Chunkui Zhang, Yifei Chen, Yan Gao, et al.
Medical Review Summary & key facts 2022 44 citations

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious and varied mental illness that can follow exposure to a traumatic event. Diagnosis in current systems (DSM-5 and ICD-11) requires that a person experienced a traumatic event. Typical symptoms are reliving fearful memories, a lasting sense of threat, active avoidance, being overly alert…

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