POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) may occur after a traumatic experience such as an auto accident, sexual assault, physical assault, fire, or other similar stressful event. Symptoms may include feeling emotionally numb, nightmares, or intrusive recollections of the event, avoidance of places or things that are reminders of the event, a persistent sense of having to be on guard, feeling detached or withdrawn, having a sense of a shortened future, irritability, trouble concentrating, insomnia and being easily startled.