Post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include violent personal assaults, natural or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat.
Written accounts of similar symptoms to PTSD date back to ancient times. Clear documentation started to show up in historical medical literature of the Civil War, when a PTSD-like disorder was known as Da Costa's Syndrome. There were also particularly good descriptions of post traumatic stress symptoms in the medical literature on combat veterans of World War II and Holocaust survivors. Starting with the Civil War and Da Costa's Syndrome, PTSD has taken on a couple of different names such as shell shock in World War I, and combat neurosis in World War II and the Koran War. It wasn't until after Vietnam that research and documentation began in earnest.
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