Definition Text Pattern: “PTSD; its definition, classification, and difference” Posttraumatic stress disorder

(PTSD) is a disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event,
series of events, or set of circumstances. An individual may share this as emotionally or physically
harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being. Examples
include natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist acts, war/combat, rape/sexual assault, historical
trauma, intimate partner violence, and bullying. PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that is rampant during
world wars such as World War I and World War II. People with PTSD may avoid situations or people that
remind them of the traumatic event, and they may have strong adverse reactions to something as
ordinary as a loud noise or an accidental touch. PTSD is included in a new category in DSM-5, Trauma-
and Stressor-Related Disorders. All of the conditions included in this classification require exposure to a
traumatic or stressful event as a diagnostic criterion. What makes it different from its same category is
that PTSD refers to the long-term aftermath of trauma. PTSD can follow after ASD, but it can also occur
even when ASD does not develop. PTSD can only be diagnosed if symptoms have lasted longer than a
month which results in anxiety and depression; thus, symptoms may start later or come and go over
time.