Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ptsd.
Examples
-
Me on the other hand have more gray hair, twitches, and Dell ptsd.
-
Freaking out in crowds, heat and noise is common to ptsd sufferers.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A few quiet ales with the crew… and a special guest from America. 2009
-
On the contrary, the people I know healing from ptsd and traumatic experiences like child abuse and life with alcoholic parents have families, jobs, friends.
Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
-
She makes sacrifices (ptsd six) and is willing to take the higher ground.
Best Six Sixes 2009
-
Quokka - Yes, re ptsd - the feeling I got was that she was indeed quite anxious about the level of heat in the bus, (or perhaps she feels the heat more than anyone around her?) but at the very least it threw her into that set of associations, so perhaps a symptom of trauma.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A few quiet ales with the crew… and a special guest from America. 2009
-
Some of those people have ptsd (the reverberating aftermath of bad stuff).
Patrick McGrath’s ‘Trauma’ « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
-
[May. 16th, 2008 | 12: 18 am] [Tags | health, politics, ptsd]
The cocksuckers and bugfuckers in government are carrying on as always 2008
-
And he is releasing it without his record co. though he likes them, because of his feelings about this needless war and death, ptsd and all the other suffering that is and will be a part of this ongoing travesty in Iraq. (h/t to jason my writing friend)
Let the sun shine in 2008
-
And pile on to that the fact that we were lied to going into this war, and that they are not providing armor and supplies to our soldiers ... it is a ptsd stimulous package for sure.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
-
Been doing battle with my own ptsd demons given new life by the insanity in Iraq and the hopelessness of watching the destruction of a country I once believed in enough to volunteer for wartime service (USMC; Vietnam; ‘65-’66).
gordon | a poem for veterans day « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.