According to American Psychiatric Association, Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder that can occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event such as a natural disaster, a serious accident, a terrorist act, war/combat, rape or other violent personal assault.


Person may experience the following symptoms.

• Event is persistently re-experienced
• Repetitive dressing thoughts about the event
• Nightmares related to the event
• Flashbacks
• Feeling as if event recurring
• Physiological activities
• An attempt to avoid thoughts
• And attempt to avoid activities
• Emotional numbness
• Feeling of detachment
• No interest in activities
• Symptoms of increased anxiety