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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A mental illness caused by a traumatic event — either witnessing it, experiencing it, or hearing about it.
Symptoms:
- Negative mood
- Loss of memory for parts of event
- Detachment
- Self-blame
- Anger outbursts
- Recklessness
- Jumpy or easily startled
- On edge, alert, or watchful of danger
- Feeling like the event is happening again
- Unwanted, intrusive memories
- Avoidance of reminders of the trauma