POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER MENTAL DISORDER BROUGHT ON BY A FRIGHTENING POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IS A MENTAL HEALTH ILLNESS BROUGHT ON BY A FRIGHTENING SITUATION, WHETHER EXPERIENCED OR WITNESSED. Symptoms can include reveach, nightmares, and severe distress, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the situation. Co-occurring disorders, such as depression, substance use, and one or more anxiety disorders, are common. The duration ranges from 6 months to a year, but can be extended. Among the causes are natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, floods, accidents and sexual abuse. STRESS is an anglicism derived from the English STRESS, tension, tension Some synonyms, words or similar expressions can be ptsd, post traumatic stress desired