English Dictionary

post-traumatic stress disorder

名詞

不可算名詞

(psychology) A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or lack of concentration.

日本語の意味

心的外傷後ストレス障害：外傷や極度のストレスの経験後に発症する心理状態で、睡眠障害、悪夢、フラッシュバック、過覚醒、抑うつ、解離、引きこもり、集中困難などの症状を伴う。

After the accident, she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and began attending therapy to manage her nightmares and flashbacks.

事故の後、彼女は心的外傷後ストレス障害と診断され、悪夢やフラッシュバックを抑えるために治療を受け始めました。

意味（1）

(psychology) A psychological condition that develops following some stressful situation or event, with symptoms such as sleep disturbance, recurrent dreams, flashbacks, hypervigilance, depression, dissociation, withdrawal or lack of concentration.

The evidence says that enormous numbers of children who live in households in high-crime neighborhoods are experiencing the psychological equivalent of battlefield conditions.…Studies show that many children who live under these conditions, 30 percent or more, are developing post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, similar to what we used to call “shell shock” in soldiers returning from war.